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Hurricane Season

Temporada de huracanes

Fernanda Melchor (born 1982)

Translated by Sophie Hughes

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In English

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Some children playing by a muddy irrigation ditch outside La Matosa spot a body in the water. It is the Witch, who took over her mother's trade and was held in fear and awe across the countryside. Rumour soon points at a handful of local lads: a neighbour saw them running from the Witch's house a few days earlier, hauling what looked like a body. Each person caught up in the killing then gives an account, drawing the reader into a village crushed by poverty and neglect, where dark sexual violence and power meet.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
Mexico
First published
2017 by Literatura Random House
Author's age
35 when first published
ISBN

9781913097097 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)

9780811228039 (New Directions, United States)

9780811230735 (New Directions, United States)

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