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The discovery of a decomposing body near a village in rural Mexico is the outcome of a series of events related in reverse-chronological order in this multi-perspective story of a witch's murder, portraying lives shaped by misogyny and machismo. 'Melchor wields a sentence like a saber' Idra Novey (author of "Those Who Know").
Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:
Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is widely recognized as one of the most exciting new voices of Mexican literature. Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. Paradais, her second novel to appear in English, was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.
Sophie Hughes is the translator of over twenty novels by authors such as Fernanda Melchor, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, and the Valle Inclán Prize, and in 2021 she was awarded the Queen Sofía Translation Prize. She lives in Trieste.
Titel: Hurricane Season
Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions (edition 1)
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 1.