Hurricane season

Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor’s first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by the award-winning translator Sophie Hughes.

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The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes.

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Weight 164 g
Dimensions 197 × 114 × 17 mm
Author

Publisher

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Imprint

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Cover

Paperback

Pages

232

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

863.7 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K