Fernanda Melchor

Hurricane Season

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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. 'Brutal, relentless, beautifu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hughes, Sophie (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-913097-08-0
EAN: 9781913097080
Produktnummer: 33488905
Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 270 KB

Über den Autor

Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is widely recognized as one of the most exciting new voices of Mexican literature. In 2018, she won the PEN Mexico Award for Literary and Journalistic Excellence and in 2019 the German Anna-Seghers-Preis and the International Literature Award for Hurricane Season.