Temporada de huracanes / Hurricane Season

Temporada de huracanes / Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor


ISBN
9786073152730
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Dimensions
141 x 229 x 15mm

FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020

NOMINADA PARA EL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020

Con un ritmo y un lenguaje magistrales, Fernanda Melchor, autora de Falsa liebre explora en esta obra las sinrazones que subyacen a los actos mas desesperados de barbarie pasional.

Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedara envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atmosfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad.

Un grupo de ninos encuentra un cadaver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la rancheria de La Matosa. El cuerpo resulta ser de la Bruja, una mujer que heredo dicho oficio de su madre fallecida, y a quienes los pobladores de esa zona rural respetaban y temian.

Tras el macabro hallazgo, las sospechas y habladurias recaeran sobre un grupo de muchachos del pueblo, a quienes dias antes una vecina vio mientras huian de casa de la hechicera, cargando lo que parecia ser un cuerpo inerte.

A partir de ahi, los personajes involucrados en el crimen nos contaran su historia mientras los lectores nos sumergimos en la vida de este lugar acosado por la miseria y el abandono, y donde convergen la violencia del erotismo mas oscuro y las sordidas relaciones de poder.

"Un viaje nocturno a las profundidades del alma humana con el estilo mas radical de su generacion." -Martin Solares

"Fernanda Melchor no solo escribe con la potencia rabiosa que le reclaman los temas que ha decidido investigar, sino que en cada pagina muestra un oido y una agudeza pocas veces vista en nuestra literatura." -Yuri Herrera

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

Longlisted * National Book Award (Translated Literature)

The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers

The Witch is dead. 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. Rumors and suspicions spread. 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.

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.
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