Hurricane season fernanda melchor review5/31/2023 ![]() Hurricane Season is a book that starts with a bang, in the form of five boys playing by the river, and a gruesome discovery they make:īut the ringleader pointed to the edge of the cattle track, and all five of them, crawling along the dry grass, all five of them packed together in a single body, all five of them surrounded by blowflies, finally recognised what was peeping out from the yellow foam on the water’s surface: the rotten face of a corpse floating among the rushes and the plastic bags swept in from the road on the breeze, the dark mask seething under a myriad of black snakes, smiling. ![]() (I read a review copy of the Australian edition, courtesy of Text Publishing) – Fitzcarraldo Editions, translated by Sophie Hughes ![]() Today’s destination doesn’t have much going for it, and when people are stuck in the middle of nowhere with little money, and even less to do, you can be sure that there’s tragedy just around the corner… However, anyone expecting some bucolic tranquillity has another think coming. As you may recall, our previous stop took us to a small village in Iran, and today’s trip sees us heading off to the countryside again, this time in Mexico. After the last week on the blog was spent looking at a writer who may well pop up on next year’s International Booker Prize longlist, it’s time to get back to this year’s selection, with five more stops to make on our literary travels before the end of the journey. ![]()
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