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ISBN-10: 0811230732
ISBN-13: 9780811230735
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/06/2020
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.40" W, 0.60" H

Hurricane Season

Translator: Sophie Hughes

Paperback

Price: $16.95

Overview

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.

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Reviews
Written with pain and enormous skill, in a rhythm at once tearing and hypnotic, Hurricane Season is an account of the wreckage of a forsaken Mexico governed by nightmarish jungle law. An important, brave novel by a writer of extraordinary talent, magnificently translated by Sophie Hughes.–Alia Trabucco Zerán
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811230732
ISBN-13: 9780811230735
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/06/2020
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.40" W, 0.60" H
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