Hurricane Season

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Title: Hurricane Season Author: Fernanda Melchor ISBN: 9780811230735 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2020 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Number of Pages : 224 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: 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 Bolaño'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. Show more