Hurricane season

By:

Melchor, Fernanda

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Fitxcarroldo Editions 2020Description: 226 pISBN:

9781913097097

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

863.7 MEL

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Non-fiction	863.7 MEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		003405

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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