![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() New York Public Library Best Books of 2020Ĭhicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 Hurricane Season Fiction by Fernanda Melchor Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute’s Translation Prize Now in paperback, Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season is “a bilious, profane, blood-spattered tempest of rage” ( The Wall Street Journal), that casts “a powerful spell” (NPR) ![]()
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