Fernanda Melchor
1) Páradais
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Mariana Enríquez En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se reúnen por las noches para embriagarse a escondidas y compartir sus descabelladas fantasías. Franco Andrade, obeso y solitario, adicto a la pornografía, sueña con seducir a la vecina de al lado -una atractiva mujer casada, madre de familia-, por quien ha desarrollado una obsesión malsana; mientras que Polo, su reacio compañero, fantasea con renunciar...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator, lingering details, and new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would...
3) Paaradais
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera ediciaon.
Language
Español
Description
Two friends, fed up with their life circumstances, devise a dark plan to catapult their lives in a different direction.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories-spiraling from real events-that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them-and even empathize-despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her...
6) Paradais
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he...
7) Mestizas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Pearl y Stasha son gemelas. Idénticas, inseparables, incluso pueden sentir y soñar lo mismo. A sus doce años, la guerra las arrastra a la vida adulta: ambas son llevadas a Auschwitz, junto con su madre y su abuelo. Ahí, bajo la mirada de Josef Mengele, experimentan privilegios y horrores desconocidos para otros prisioneros. Privadas de la personalidad que compartían, sus identidades son alteradas por la culpa y el dolor. Un invierno Pearl...
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