*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE*The Witch is dead.
As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice.
Written with a brutal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane SEASON, Fernanda Melchor\'s first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by the award-winning translator Sophie Hughes..
After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE*The Witch is dead
