Hurricane Season

Melchor writes with an energy and verbal violence that have no equivalent in recent Mexican fiction. The story of the Witch's murder unfolds in very long, breathless sentences, in a torrent that sweeps everything along with it. It is not an easy or pleasant novel: it is demolishing. But that is precisely where its value lies, because what it portrays — poverty, machismo, superstition, violence — does not deserve gentle treatment. One of the most important voices to emerge from Mexico in the last decade.