I had a heaviness in my chest while I was reading most of this short novel. However, I could not stop reading, I was in trance every time I opened my kindle, It was like I was the one on drugs not the characters. It’s violent, it’s grim, the language is dirty, the prose is intense, there is rape, minor abuse, sex, drugs, murder, violence towards homosexuals, poverty, whores, lots of booze, too much of everything that should disgust me. Shortlisted for 2020 International Booker Prize I had a heaviness in my chest while I was reading most o My Book of the year 2020 My Book of the year 2020 Shortlisted for 2020 International Booker Prize 4/6 read It’s violent, it’s grim, the language is dirty, the prose is intense, there is rape, minor abuse, sex, drugs, murder, violence towards homosexuals, poverty, whores, lots of booze, too much of everything that should disgust me. 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.more 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.

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. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling l A New York Times Notable Book (2020)Ī Guardian and Best Book of 2020 A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian and Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020 The Witch is dead.

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