“I never wanted to be a writer. As a child, I dreamed of being a police inspector or an FBI agent, but I was born on the wrong side of the Rio Bravo
,” Mexican Fernanda Melchor told the Spanish press when her second novel,
The Hurricane Season
, was published. , a dizzying tale of rural misery and puritano-religious fundamentalism.
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A great reader of William Faulkner, Raymond Carver and Stephen King, this native of Veracruz belongs to this new generation of uninhibited Hispanic novelists who draw inspiration from the gore or trash repertoire that exacerbates the art of narrative.
By her side: the Argentine Mariana Enriquez, who praised her, and her compatriot Samanta Schweblin, the Uruguayan Fernanda Trias, or even the young Ecuadorian Monica Ojeda, with a captivating first opus which has just been translated by Gallimard,
Jaws
.
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Third novel by Melchor,
Paradaïze
is a kind of oppressive nocturne, taking the reader by the throat, without…
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