A Mexican novelist explores how murderous male rage flourishes in an ailing society.
The atmosphere of permanent threat, of constant vulnerability, recalls the fourth section of Roberto Bolaño’s “,” titled “The Part About the Crimes,” loosely based on a spate of murders in Ciudad Juárez.
Unlike “Hurricane Season,” where the moral misery of the characters is set against a backdrop of material misery, the new novel takes place in an affluent world: a gated community given the English name Paradise and referred to with the phonetic rendering “Paradais.” The milieu is one of luxury and wealth, insulated from what happens outside its perimeter; in a sense, the gates of Paradais are built to keep out the world of “Hurricane Season.
“Paradais” is a study of misogyny. But Melchor is primarily a novelist, not a journalist, and there are no concessions here to any kind of reportorial completeness. We never get to know Señora Marián as anything other than Franco’s object of desire: we never have access to her thoughts or emotions, or get more than a perfunctory look at her private world.
Whenever he crossed the bridge over the river he would stop for a few minutes to watch the brackish waters snake their way between the lawns, the luxury villas on one side, and on the other the tiny islands populated by willows and shaggy palm trees, barely visible against the salmon pink canvas of the port, all lit up in the night sky, there in the distance, and he would get to thinking about the boat that he and his grandfather should’ve built together when there was still time. . . .
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