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A teenager and a groundskeeper in a Mexican gated community become entangled in a relationship that exposes the violence beneath manicured surfaces.
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Hurricane Season
A dead body surfaces in a Mexican village, and the investigation spirals into a chorus of rage, poverty, and sexual violence told in a single, breathless torrent.
Age of Vice
In the early hours in New Delhi a Mercedes ploughs into a group of people sleeping by the road, and the story goes back to Ajay, a servant from a poor village who rose to work for Sunny Wadia, the heir to a criminal empire.
Sanctuary
A young woman in Depression-era Mississippi is violated by a bootlegger, and the justice system that responds reveals more about the corruption of power than the crime itself.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A gang of boys worship a sailor for embodying the heroic ideal, but when the sailor softens into domesticity, they decide he must be punished.
Wonderful, Wonderful Times
In late-1950s Vienna, four teenagers, among them the twins Rainer and Anna, carry out violent robberies in the park out of boredom and contempt.
2666
Five linked parts circle Santa Teresa, a city in the Mexican desert where hundreds of women are being murdered, and a reclusive German novelist whom four European critics are searching for.
The Time of the Hero
At the Leoncio Prado military academy in Lima, a cadet steals the questions for a chemistry exam, and the theft sets off a chain of events among the boys of the fifth year.
Not Forever, But For Now
Cecil and his older brother Otto, two young men still kept by governesses in a grand house in Wales, are heirs to a family business of murder for hire, and their grandfather, a contract killer with stories about famous victims, wants Otto in the trade.
Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
Cigano, an American drifter living rough in Rio de Janeiro after leaving prison clean of heroin, meets Narcisa, a poet and street addict, and falls for her.
The Wasp Factory
A teenager on a Scottish island constructs elaborate rituals of death from animal remains, and the revelation of his family's secret reframes everything.
To Have and Have Not
Harry Morgan, a charter-boat captain in Key West cheated out of his fee in the Depression, turns to running rum and people across the straits from Cuba to keep his family fed.
American Psycho
Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street banker obsessed with business cards, grooming and restaurant reservations, is also a serial killer, or says he is, in a satire of 1980s greed and male vanity.