Hurricane season
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TextPublication details: London Fitxcarroldo Editions 2020 Description: 226 pISBN: 9781913097097Subject(s): Murder--Investigation | Witches | Women--Crimes against | SuperstitionDDC classification: 863.7 Summary: The witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of LA matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, fernanda melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane season, melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes.
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| 843.914 CAM The fall | 861.62 NER Twenty love poems and a song of despair | 863.64 MAR One hundred years of solitude | 863.7 MEL Hurricane season | 875.01 CIC How to tell a joke: | 891.1 SIE A history of classical poetry Sanskrit-Pali-Prakrit | 891.431 DIN Rashmirathi |
The witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of LA matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, fernanda melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane season, melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes.
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