AW21 Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor

A savage, violent howl of a book by one of Mexico’s most exciting
writers, Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season explores the deep
misogyny and femicide of her country. The murder of the town
“witch” is the book’s tragic centre, around which swirls streams
of brutal, mesmerising, illuminating prose, each chapter told
from the perspective of a different but always unreliable
narrator. Shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize,
Hurricane Season is both a dark celebration of language and a
powerful insight into a world of poverty, brutality and gore.


Chaired by Clare Wright