Hurricane Season
Author
Original Work
Translator
Language
Year
2021
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
224
ISBN
9780811230735
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.— Google Books
Press Reviews
- The Guardianby Chris Power · Mar 2022
A Mexican gated community offers no protection in this chilling novel by the author of Hurricane Season
- The Guardianby Justine Jordan · Nov 2020
Hilary Mantel, Ali Smith and Tsitsi Dangarembga completed landmark series, Martin Amis turned to autofiction and Elena Ferrante returned to Naples – plus a host of brilliant debuts
- The Guardianby M John Harrison · Mar 2020
This deep drill into violence, femicide, homophobia and misogyny in rural Mexico is savage and necessary
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