
Fernanda Melchor and Nicole Flattery: Paradais
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Paradise: A Novel About Reality and Fantasy
I write mostly novels because I like that feeling of a journey that a novel gives you, right? Like going into a journey and you spend several nights or several days with those characters. With paradise I wanted to be like a dream, like a movie, you know, like something that you just immerse yourself into it and then you go out like grasping for breath. In the, in your novels I think reality feels very real, like ultra real, and then fantasy also feels very real You know, they're fantasy also, and that's why I think when they don't escape their circumstances, it's even more kind of heartbreaking Your epigraph in this is from David Lynch, are
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