Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Season
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Narrated by:
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Inés del Castillo
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Tim Pabon
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Ana Osorio
The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis
The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. 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 that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.
Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence - real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.
©2016 Fernanda Melchor; English translation copyright 2020 Sophie Hughes (P)2020 Audible, Inc.Unfortunately, the readers (there are several) don’t do the novel justice. Two of them in particular (the male reader and the female reader who narrates the chapters focused on Norma) put the emphasis on the wrong words in their sentences so often that it sounds like they don’t even understand the words they’re reading. At some points it was as bad as a local radio ad, I honestly had reconstruct the sentences in my mind to figure out what in the world they meant. Audible does a disservice to good books when it hires such incompetent readers. If you’re going to read this book, I’d recommend that you read it in print or get the ebook, this recording was a disappointment.
Disturbing but powerful book, awful readers
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It's still a great book, and I definitely recommend it. You just need to be the right audience for it. There are disturbing themes that may be triggering to some, and some really do show up on and off throughout the whole book quite frequently. So I would look that up, if I had certain triggers, since I don't want to spoil it here, for those, who want to go into it blind.
I also read the book physically with the audiobook at the same time, but if you're also like that, I'd like to tell you that certain phrases, etc, have been changed, so that's something to think about. I may just listen to it, if that's something that would take you out of the story.
So those are my disclaimers, warnings, etc. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone, which is why I'm refraining from saying anything that isn't in the description.
Have a good day, everyone. And stay healthy.❤️
Book 4.5 Stars, Audiobook 5 Stars
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