Bøger af Fernanda Melchor

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 gruelling 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 deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society - fractured by issues of race, class and violence - and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

En gruppe børn finder et lig, der fyder i en vandingskanals grumsede vand nær landsbyen La Matosa i det sydlige Mexico. Liget viser sig at være Heksen, en kvinde, der har arvet hvervet fra sin afdøde mor, som befolkningen i området frygtede og respekterede.

”En af Mexicos mest spændende nye forfattere.” – The Guardian I et lukket, luksuriøst boligkompleks lusker to utilpassede teenagere rundt og drikker sig fulde. Franco Andrade, ensom, overvægtig og afhængig af porno, er besat af tanken om at forføre sin nabo – en smuk, gift kvinde og mor til to – mens den fattige Polo Chaparro, der er droppet ud af skolen, drømmer om at opsige sit slidsomme job som gartner og slippe væk fra sin anmassende mor og deres narkokontrollerede landsby. Franco og Polo har ikke meget til fælles, men de har hinanden. Og da de hver især står over for umuligheden i at få, hvad de selv mener, de fortjener, udtænker de sammen en plan, der er lige så dumdristig, som den er makaber. Paradais er en fortælling om fattigdom, ulighed og vold. I en svimlende strøm af tætvævet prosa udforsker romanen den eksplosive skrøbelighed, der rumsterer under overfladen på det mexicanske samfund – og hvordan myter, begær og to unge menneskers fantasier kan få livet til at gå op i sømmene.

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 deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society-with its racist, classist, hyper violent tendencies-and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

A searing collection of true stories by Mexico's most exciting writer.

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 hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

"Mariana Enrâiquez En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se reâunen por las noches para embriagarse a escondidas y compartir sus descabelladas fantasâias. Franco Andrade, obeso y solitario, adicto a la pornografâia, sueäna con seducir a la vecina de al lado -una atractiva mujer casada, madre de familia-, por quien ha desarrollado una obsesiâon malsana; mientras que Polo, su reacio compaänero, 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 maquinarâan un plan tan pueril como macabro. Pâaradais, escrita por Fernanda Melchor, una de las escritoras mexicanas mâas destacadas de la actualidad, explora la facilidad con la que el deseo puede convertirse en obsesiâon y, mâas aâun, en violencia, al tiempo que narra la alianza entre los polos opuestos de la sociedad mexicana contemporâanea.

Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, HURRICANE SEASON, Fernanda Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by the award-winning translator Sophie Hughes.