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Hurricane Season
2017
Fernanda Melchor
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2020 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.
La pregunta de mi madre
2014
Luis Mey
El jóven Matías es una suerte de mentiroso serial: le miente a Carolina, la chica que le gusta, con intención de impresionarla; le miente a su propia madre, a la que no le sobra la plata, para conseguir que le pague el viaje a Mar del Plata en el que pretende confesar todo lo que no es. Le miente a su incondicional (e impresentable) amigo Peine sobre los verdaderos motivos del viaje. Pero sobre todo, se miente a sí mismo. Es que la adolescencia puede ser tan confusa como las historias que se inventan para poder enfrentar o evadir los problemas. La contundente prosa de Luis Mey discurre como un viaje de ritmos vertiginosos y personajes inolvidables, que hace revivir los dramas y comedias de ese tumultuoso tiempo de la vida con su habitual despliegue de humor, ironía y desparpajo.