AW21 Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
A savage, violent howl of a book by one of Mexico\u2019s most exciting writers, Fernanda Melchor\u2019s Hurricane Season explores the deep misogyny and femicide of her country. The murder of the town \u201cwitch\u201d is the book\u2019s 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.
\nChaired by Clare Wright