Hurricane Season Hurricane Season

Hurricane Season

    • 3.9 • 43 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers

Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's Tanslation Prize
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis
New York Public Library Best Books of 2020

Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
October 6
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
New Directions
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

jonnywhispers ,

almost all of us, at one generation or another, came from this kind of poverty.

you don’t have the guts to read this book.

SamaraCB ,

Just meh

Tbh this book was very intriguing I’ll give it that. However it seems to me that it was just all over the place and I was trying to connect the different pov’s. And can we just talk about the ending?! Like cmon

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