Hurricane Season

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters--inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable--forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Like Roberto Bolaño's 2666 or Faulkner's novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence--real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.

Author: Fernanda Melchor
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/06/2020
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780811230735
Award: Man Booker International Prize - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 12/01/2020

About the Author
Hughes, Sophie: - SOPHIE HUGHES has translated numerous Spanish-language authors, including José Revueltas and Fernanda Melchor for New Directions.Melchor, Fernanda: - Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is "one of Mexico's most exciting new voices" (The Guardian). Her novel Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book.