Bibliograph

Hurricane season, Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes

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Label

Hurricane season, Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Hurricane season

Oclc number

1102808627

Responsibility statement

Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes

Summary

"The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño's 2666 or Faulkner's greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence-real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it"--, Provided by publisher

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