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Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Season
An urgent and captivating tale of dark magic and small-town corruption from one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers.
An urgent and captivating tale of dark magic and small-town corruption from one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers.
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Inspired by a real event of the murder of a woman in rural Mexico, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with superstitions and violence—violence that poisons everything around.
The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing in the murky waters of the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village is rife with rumours and suspicions about the murder of this feared and respected woman, who had carried out the community’s ritual shamanic customs.
In dazzling, visceral language, Melchor extracts humanity from otherwise irredeemably brutal characters, and spins a terrifying and heartrending tale of dark suspense in a Mexican village that seems damned.
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Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season is highly praised for its powerful and unsparing writing style, widely acknowledged as a bold portrayal of violence and misogyny in a small Mexican village. Reviewers commend Melchor's ability to craft a narrative filled with rage and intensity, likening her linguistic prowess to a storm that sweeps readers up with its force. The novel is noted for its layered depiction of societal issues, supported by a stunning translation from Sophie Hughes that retains the raw intensity and complexity of Melchor's prose.
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ISBN: 9781922268006
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 March 2020
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Contributors:
- Translated by Sophie Hughes
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Fernanda Melchor was born in 1982 in Veracruz, Mexico. She is widely recognised as one of the most exciting new voices of Mexican literature. In 2018, she won the PEN Mexico Award for Literary and Journalistic Excellence and in 2019 the German Anna-Seghers-Preis and the International Literature Award for Hurricane Season, which has also been longlisted for the US 2020 National Book Awards, Translated Literature, and shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize.
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