![]() ![]() ![]() Like Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence-real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Fernanda Melchor was born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1982 and is widely recognized as one of the most exciting new voices of Mexican literature. New York Public Library Best Books of 2020Ĭhicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 Hurricane Season Fiction by Fernanda Melchor Hurricane Season Longlist, National Book Awards 2020 for Translated Literature. Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute’s Translation Prize Now in paperback, Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season is “a bilious, profane, blood-spattered tempest of rage” ( The Wall Street Journal), that casts “a powerful spell” (NPR) ![]()
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