ISBN 9781913097097|Paperback|232 pages|2020|Fitzcarraldo Editions
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor is a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons.
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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.
Author:
Fernanda Melchor
Translator: Sophie Hughes
ISBN:
9781913097097
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
232
Year of Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
About the Author
Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is widely recognized 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. Sophie Hughes has translated novels by several contemporary Latin American and Spanish authors, including Laia Jufresa and Rodrigo Hasbún. Her translation of Alia Trabucco Zerán's The Remainder was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.
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