Hurricane Season
The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. 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--inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable--forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.
Like Roberto Bolaño's 2666 or Faulkner's novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence--real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.
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Morbid and hopeless, transporting people to somewhere so bleak and medieval, but at the same time, it is not such an ancient or mythological tale. Most of the characters felt like trauma or prejudice personified, and apart from a few, all of them came across as mouthpieces. However, from part five onward, it felt much clearer. I read it alongside [b:Dead Girls|49008146|Dead Girls|Selva Almada|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1585179065l/49008146._SY75_.jpg|41553057] , and the two books felt perfect together. 3.5/5
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