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Paradais
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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Fernanda Melchor explora la violencia y la desigualdad en esta novela brutal. Lo hace con una destreza tcnica deslumbrante, odo absoluto para la oralidad y precisin de neurocirujana para la crueldad. Pradais es un breve e inexorable descenso al infierno. Mariana Enrquez En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se renen por las noches para embriagarse a escondidas y compartir sus descabelladas fantasas. Franco Andrade, obeso y solitario, adicto a la pornografa, suea con seducir a la vecina de al lado -una atractiva mujer casada, madre de familia-, por quien ha desarrollado una obsesin malsana; mientras que Polo, su reacio compaero, fantasea con renunciar a su agobiante empleo como jardinero del exclusivo fraccionamiento y huir de su casa, de su pueblo infestado de narcos, y del yugo de su dominante madre. Ante la imposibilidad de conseguir lo que cada uno cree merecer, Franco y Polo maquinarn un plan tan pueril como macabro. Pradais, escrita por Fernanda Melchor, una de las escritoras mexicanas ms destacadas de la actualidad, explora la facilidad con la que el deseo puede convertirse en obsesin y, ms an, en violencia, al tiempo que narra la alianza entre los polos opuestos de la sociedad mexicana contempornea.
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ju.ca.no
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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This was not an easy book to read- it‘s a violent & obscene story with very explicit & dirty language, combined with long sentences and lots of misogyny, cruelty & crime. It‘s about 2 teenagers without any perspective in life - a poor gardner who works in the gated community „Paradise“ and a rich porn addicted kid who lives in those premises who somehow connect over booze.
At times I was hoping for a bit more depth, so I‘m only rating it 3/5⭐️.

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ju.ca.no
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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This ones (plus the new TJ Klune book that is not pictured) are all books that I‘ve ordered that have arrived this week 🙊 Now I need a week off to read them because they all sound so goooood😍 I‘ve already started Convenience Store Woman and while I‘m only a few pages in, I already LOVE it! Hopefully the others will be as good🥰

TrishB Great haul 👍🏻 11mo
erzascarletbookgasm Convenience Store and Bangkok are good. I‘m curious about Whale. Nice choices. 11mo
BarbaraBB Wow such a great haul! 11mo
batsy Fab haul! Paradais and Whale are on my TBR and Convenience Store is an incredibly unique read. 11mo
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catiewithac
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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Jamie, thank you for this beautiful birthday book! It looks like an intense read, and I‘m into it! I‘m so glad you‘ve been bitten by the Van Gogh bug. I have the penguin classics edition of his letters to thumb through this year. 💙💛 Cheers to our shared birthday month! 🥳🤩

JamieArc I haven‘t read it, but saw it on your Litsy TBR, and it was displayed at our local bookstore begging to be taken home 😊. I‘m glad Littens have lavished some Litsy love on you for your birthday. I was feeling bad that I didn‘t send a better package but I‘m having a hard time getting myself together after the holidays 🤦🏻‍♀️. I hope you‘ve had a great birthday! 1y
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Minervasbutler
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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A wild obscene scream of horror, recounting, from the POV of 16-year-old gardener Polo, the depraved plan of privileged "fatboy" Franco to rape and murder the glamorous wife of a TV star. Brilliantly written and translated, the novel is 120 pages of demotic misogyny which bludgeons the reader with uncomfortable truths of toxic masculinity and class privilege.

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Abailliekaras
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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A whirlwind brilliantly sustained by Fernanda Melchor & translator Sophie Hughes. Like Hurricane Season it‘s a brutal insight into the lives of the poor, misogyny & influence of drug cartels in Mexico. Melchor writes from Polo‘s perspective so that we understand the violence at the end (which is otherwise unthinkable). And her sentences have so much energy & momentum that they pull you along. It‘s a superbly controlled stream of consciousness.

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sarahbarnes
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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Intense from start to finish, this short novel left me reeling by the end. I absolutely love Melchor‘s narrative style and definitely now want to read Hurricane Season.

merelybookish You are plowing through books! Are you on vacation? 😀 2y
sarahbarnes @merelybookish no just not sleeping and avoiding life. 😂 2y
merelybookish @sarahbarnes Well that's less fun but thank gawd for books. 2y
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sarahbarnes @merelybookish Right?! They always come through. 📚 (edited) 2y
batsy I'm looking forward to reading her! A tiny bit afraid but generally looking forward 😂 2y
sarahbarnes @batsy I know exactly what you mean! 😂 2y
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BarbaraBB
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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#BookReport 17/22

I have been ill this week and haven‘t read for a few days. And yet I‘ve managed to finish these four books. Sea of Tranquility was the obvious favorite although I enjoyed the tagged one too and loved the Dutch book Noodweer.

IuliaC I hope you feel better! 2y
batsy Hope you're feeling much improved 🌻 2y
Cinfhen Oh no!! Sorry to hear you haven‘t been feeling well😫Hope all is better 2y
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Nute Hope that you are feeling better now! 2y
sarahbarnes I‘m sorry you‘ve been under the weather! I hope you‘re feeling better. 2y
BarbaraBB @IuliaC @batsy @Nute @sarahbarnes Thank you for your best wishes. I do feel better already 🤍😘 2y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen I feel better, and will email soon! 😘 2y
Ruthiella Hope you feel better soon! ❤️🤒 2y
kwmg40 Sending you good wishes for your recovery! 2y
TheLudicReader Hope you‘re on the mend. 😘 2y
DivineDiana Wishing you are feeling better! 2y
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BarbaraBB
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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This is the uncomfortable read about two Mexican boys, more or less condemned to each other out of loneliness, and frustration about how life is turning out. They can‘t be more different yet they keep meeting each other. But it‘s a toxic friendship and you know from the start that no good can come from this.

#52BooksIn52weeks #WealthyCharacter
#internationalBookerPrize2022

merelybookish Are you going hiking? 🥾 2y
BarbaraBB @merelybookish My daughter is about to go traveling for two months… these are her shoes and stuff 🤍 2y
merelybookish @BarbaraBB oh wow! Sounds fun! 2y
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Megabooks Looks like R is all organized, but I know your Mama heart will worry after her while she‘s gone. 💜 2y
BarbaraBB @Megabooks You are so right! She is extremely organized and she‘ll be fine but I‘ll be worrying and missing her those months! 2y
sarahbarnes Great review. I‘m on the list for this one at the library. I hope your daughter‘s travels go well. ❤️ 2y
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes You‘ll enjoy this one, I think! My daughter arrived safely in Costa Rica but I‘ll be a bit worried throughout her whole trip I think 😇 2y
sarahbarnes I‘m looking forward to it! And I completely understand-I always worry, too. ❤️ 2y
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ClairesReads
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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If you‘ve read Melchor before (hello Hurricane Season) you know what you‘re in for here and if you haven‘t, buckle up. Paradais is an uncomfortable reading experience. In Paradais, Melchor explores toxic masculinity and the thin line between it and violence in graphic, confronting detail. This is a novel which drops you right into a horrifying headspace. It‘s extremely well-done, and as such a pretty full on reading experience.

BarbaraBB Great review. I have this one waiting beside my bed. 2y
ClairesReads @BarbaraBB thank you- I hope you enjoy it 2y
sarahbarnes Great review - waiting for this one to come in from the library. 2y
ClairesReads @sarahbarnes thanks Sarah! Hope you don‘t have to wait too long 😊 2y
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Simona
Paradais / Paradise | Fernanda Melchor
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Written in quite simple prose and straightforward narration this is the story about two completely different (in every sense) teenagers who find a common point in dissatisfaction with life, and in beliefs/desires what belongs to them or what they deserve. This brutally raw and furious story is excellent comment on social stratification and based on this stratification - different reasons for violence. Unpleasant read, but incredibly powerful.

BarbaraBB Great review. Looking forward to it 2y
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batsy I'm looking forward to this and to Hurricane Season, also hopefully soon! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
Simona @BarbaraBB @batsy I saw very mixed reviews for this one, so maybe worth to check out, before blaming me for misleading 😘 2y
Simona @rockpools Have you already read this one? I think that this is this year The War of the Poor 😘 2y
rockpools @Simona I have. I was dreading this one - I never did make it through Hurricane Season. And this was truly horrible. But I kind of felt for the boys, and how they ended up where they did. That was quite some clever storytelling - I thought it was powerful. (WotP - not so much 😉) 2y
Simona @rockpools I wasn‘t interested in Hurricane Season before, but now I have it very high on my TBR list … and I still think that War of Poor is powerful 😘 2y
batsy Yes, it seems like a dark read. I read the first page and kind of understand what to expect with her style, but I need to be in a proper frame of mind for it 🙂 2y
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ephemeralwaltz
Paradais | Fernanda Melchor
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Frothy coffee and a new Melchor = a great start to the day

Tanisha_A Perfect ❤️ 3y
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