Hurricane Season [electronic resource]
Melchor, Fernanda2020
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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.
Main title:
Hurricane Season [electronic resource] / Fernanda Melchor
Author:
Melchor, Fernanda, AuthorHughes, Sophie, Translator
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is widely recognized as one of the most exciting new voices of Mexican literature. Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. Paradais, her second novel to appear in English, was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.
ISBN:
9781913097080
Language:
English
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BRN:
2810587
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