Fernanda Melchor and Nicole Flattery: Paradais
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Paradise: A Novel About Violence and Poverty
With paradise, what happened was that the real story behind it is that with hurricane season, I just felt it was a huge success in Mexico and elsewhere. It took so much from me, like mentally and physically and emotionally, and it was a very strange experience of a book to write. So at the end part of the horror condition was a book about suffering is like a circle that repeats itself. You just suffer and then you make other people suffer and you make yourself suffer," she says.
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