Violencia, pobreza, adicciones, una terrible incomprensión y protagonistas que buscan amor y ser vistos en los lugares equivocados, todos con un terrible vacío. La forma en que está escrito contribuye a esa sensación incómoda, vertiginosa, como de agua que va subiendo y subiendo para ahogarte: oraciones largas, con pocos puntos y aparte, que hacen que la prosa se sienta como una retahíla de palabras que no deja de fluir y fluir y que cada vez se van poniendo más y más turbias. 'Temporada de Huracanes' es una historia que me desgarró el alma, sabiendo que lo que ocurre en sus páginas no está nada lejos de la realidad.

Hace mucho que no sentía que un libro me asfixiaba, me calaba hasta los huesos y me incomodaba tanto como éste. Ps.1 Here is an interview of the Author where she admits that she got inspired to write the novel from a real story read in a newspaper. In each of the 8 chapters the story is told from the point of view of one character who has more or less something to do with the murder or knows a characters that was involved in the violence. The novel is written around the brutal murder of a witch in a nightmarish village somewhere in Mexico. From the 4 titles that I’ve read so far this is my favorite. A book that makes you feel so uncomfortable and unpleasant but also mesmerizes you and locks you in, deserves all the stars (and the Booker International prize as a bonus. I had a heaviness in my chest while I was reading most of this short novel. However, I could not stop reading, I was in trance every time I opened my kindle, It was like I was the one on drugs not the characters. It’s violent, it’s grim, the language is dirty, the prose is intense, there is rape, minor abuse, sex, drugs, murder, violence towards homosexuals, poverty, whores, lots of booze, too much of everything that should disgust me. Shortlisted for 2020 International Booker Prize

Hurricane season by fernanda melchor