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

by Melchor, Fernanda, 1982-

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New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.

Witches -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Mexico -- Fiction.

9780811228039 (hc.)

Temporada de huracanes. English.

210 p. ; 22 cm.

"Originally published in Spanish as Temporada de huracanes"--T.p. verso.

In English, translated from the Spanish.

"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 Bolano'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"--Publisher.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

Literary fiction.

Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986-

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