![]() He is not rich like the other teenager he introduces us to – Franco Andrade – who is overweight, addicted to porn, only fantasizes about his neighbour and the ways in which he will have sex with her – who is an attractive married woman and a mother of two. Polo is the narrator and all he wants to do is get out. Even in language, he cannot have a piece of paradise. ![]() ![]() The title comes from the fact that he cannot pronounce it, and his boss teaches him to pronounce this way. We meet Polo, a 16-year-old school drop-out who works as a gardener in a luxury residential complex called “Paradise” in Progreso, Mexico. Its 125 pages are packed with unsettling language, doesn’t play to the reader’s expectations, and definitely does not believe in toning it down. Paradais is a shorter compared to her previous work Hurricane Season, and yet it doesn’t feel that way. ![]() The latest offering by Melchor is dark, overwhelming, rustic, punches you in the gut, devastating to say the least, and more than anything else, in a very nuanced manner touches on the class differences in society and what happens thereof. ![]() Translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |