In store now! Hurricane Season, by Fernanda Melchor
When three young boys find the rotting corpse of a local madwoman, rumours begin to whorl around their small impoverished community as to who could have done this, and why. But Melchor’s searing novel is not only interested in merely resolving the crime. Rather, she probes the conditions which incite such violence: poverty, misogyny, superstition, and prejudice. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 by way of Virginia Woolf, Hurricane Season is the torrential release of pain and frustrations of a thousand unheard voices. An absolute masterpiece of modern fiction, lovingly translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes.
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
Paperback £12.99
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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