Descripción
One of the best books of the 21st Century according to the New York Times FINALIST FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NOMINATED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD FINALIST On the New York Times's list of the 100 best books of 2020.
The book that inspired a Netflix adaptation. With masterful rhythm and language, Fernanda Melchor, author of Falsa liebre explores in this work the irrationalities that underlie the most desperate acts of passionate barbarity. A raw and heartbreaking novel in which the reader will be enveloped, trapped by the words and the atmosphere of terrible, yet joyful, fatality. A group of children finds a corpse floating in the murky waters of an irrigation canal near the La Matosa ranch. The body turns out to be that of the Witch, a woman who inherited her trade from her deceased mother, and whom the inhabitants of that rural area respected and feared. After the macabre discovery, suspicions and rumors will fall on a group of boys from the town, whom a neighbor had seen days earlier fleeing the sorceress's house, carrying what appeared to be an inert body. From then on, the characters involved in the crime will tell us their story while readers delve into the life of this place plagued by misery and abandonment, and where the violence of the darkest eroticism and sordid power relations converge. "A nocturnal journey into the depths of the human soul with the most radical style of its generation." -Martín Solares "Fernanda Melchor not only writes with the furious power demanded by the themes she has chosen to investigate, but on each page shows an ear and an acuity rarely seen in our literature." -Yuri Herrera ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AND THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Longlisted - National Book Award (Translated Literature) New York Times Notable Book of 2020 The book that inspired the adapted film, now on Netflix. The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers 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 on new 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.
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9786073152730
ISBN10: 6073152736
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | Literary
The book that inspired a Netflix adaptation. With masterful rhythm and language, Fernanda Melchor, author of Falsa liebre explores in this work the irrationalities that underlie the most desperate acts of passionate barbarity. A raw and heartbreaking novel in which the reader will be enveloped, trapped by the words and the atmosphere of terrible, yet joyful, fatality. A group of children finds a corpse floating in the murky waters of an irrigation canal near the La Matosa ranch. The body turns out to be that of the Witch, a woman who inherited her trade from her deceased mother, and whom the inhabitants of that rural area respected and feared. After the macabre discovery, suspicions and rumors will fall on a group of boys from the town, whom a neighbor had seen days earlier fleeing the sorceress's house, carrying what appeared to be an inert body. From then on, the characters involved in the crime will tell us their story while readers delve into the life of this place plagued by misery and abandonment, and where the violence of the darkest eroticism and sordid power relations converge. "A nocturnal journey into the depths of the human soul with the most radical style of its generation." -Martín Solares "Fernanda Melchor not only writes with the furious power demanded by the themes she has chosen to investigate, but on each page shows an ear and an acuity rarely seen in our literature." -Yuri Herrera ENGLISH DESCRIPTION One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AND THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Longlisted - National Book Award (Translated Literature) New York Times Notable Book of 2020 The book that inspired the adapted film, now on Netflix. The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers 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 on new 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.
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9786073152730
ISBN10: 6073152736
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Fernanda Melchor (Veracruz, México, 1982) es autora de las novelas Falsa liebre (2013) y Temporada de huracanes (2016). Es periodista egresada de la Universidad Veracruzana y maestra en Estética y Arte por la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Algunos de sus relatos y reportajes literarios han sido publicados en revistas como Replicante, Letras Libres, GQ y Vice, así como en la antología Mexico 20, New Voices, Old Traditions (Pushkin Press, 2015). En 2013 fue reconocida por la revista La Tempestad como la escritora emergente del año en el panorama literario mexicano, y en 2015 por el Conaculta, el Hay Festival y el British Council como una de las escritoras menores de 40 años más destacadas de su país.