Hurricane Season -- Fernanda Melchor, Paperback

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 Bolano'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