Hurricane Season

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. 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–inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable–forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Like Roberto Bolano’s2666or Faulkner’s novels,Hurricane Seasontakes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence–real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.

Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982,Fernanda Melchoris “one of Mexico’s most exciting new voices” (The Guardian). Her novelHurricane Seasonwas shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book.

Sophie Hugheshas translated numerous Spanish-language authors, including Jos Revueltas and Fernanda Melchor for New Directions.

• Publisher: New Directions (October 6, 2020)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-10: 0811230732
• ISBN-13: 9780811230735
• Item Weight: 8.3 ounces
• Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.1 inches