Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor torrent

Category: Crime, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Hacienda Mexico Mythology Rural Trauma Unreliable Narrators Violence

Written by Fernanda Melchor
Read by Inés del Castillo, Tim Pabon, Ana Osorio
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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.

Translated by Sophie Hughes

Audio Release Date:
September 22 2020

6 hrs and 41 mins