Hurricane Season

The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Winner of the Queen Sofa Spanish Institute's Tanslation Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 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 charactersinners whom most people would write off as irredeemableforming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolanos 2666 or Faulkners novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violencereal violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: its a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.