Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor

A group of children find a corpse floating in the murky waters of an irrigation canal near the ranch of La Matosa. The body turns out to be that of the Witch, a woman who inherited the trade from her deceased mother, and whom the residents of that rural area respected and feared.

After the macabre discovery, suspicions and rumors will fall on a group of boys from the town, whom a neighbor had seen days earlier fleeing the sorceress's house, carrying what appeared to be an inert body.

From then on, the characters involved in the crime will tell us their story while readers delve into the life of this place plagued by misery and abandonment, and where the violence of the darkest eroticism and sordid power relations converge.

"A nocturnal journey into the depths of the human soul with the most radical style of its generation." -Martín Solares

"Fernanda Melchor not only writes with the furious power demanded by the themes she has decided to investigate, but on every page she shows an ear and an acuity rarely seen in our literature." -Yuri Herrera

One of the best books of the 21st Century according to The New York Times

FINALIST FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2020

NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020

FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

On The New York Times' list of the 100 best books of 2020.

The book that inspired a Netflix adaptation.

With masterful rhythm and language, Fernanda Melchor, author of False Hare, explores in this work the irrationalities that underlie the most desperate acts of passionate barbarism.