![]() ![]() 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. 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. Her novel Temporada de huracanes (translated to English as Hurricane. 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. Through her experiences, she constructs intense literary works with a nuanced rawness. BOSTON - The first subtropical storm is in the books for 2023, and it was months before the start of actual hurricane season starting on June 1st. Although internationally acclaimed, Hurricane Season is known to hit the reader like a. ![]() The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers. 2 days ago &0183 &32 / 6:09 PM / CBS Boston. Our May book club pick is Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor. ![]()
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