Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor The brilliance of the Spanish

The brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions rendered by a remarkable cast of translators

The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko

Cuban writer Ivan Cardenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds

is pulled back into her nation’s fraught history after a fleeting encounter with a woman who is a doppelgänger of Bárbara

" asks the stranger

Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor The brilliance of the SpanishThe Witch is dead. 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. 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. Original Language: Spanish Translator: Sophie Hughes Binding: