Fernanda Melchor

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. 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--inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable--forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Like Roberto Bolano's 2666 or Faulkner's novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence--real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it's a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.

Hurricane Season

Sophie Hughes

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor - an attractive married woman and mother - while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society - with its racist, classist, hyperviolent tendencies - and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

Paradais

Con un ritmo y un lenguaje magistrales, Fernanda Melchor, autora de Falsa liebre explora en esta obra las sinrazones que subyacen a los actos m�s desesperados de barbarie pasional. Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedar� envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atm�sfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad. Un grupo de ni�os encuentra un cad�ver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la rancher�a de La Matosa. El cuerpo resulta ser de la Bruja, una mujer que hered� dicho oficio de su madre fallecida, y a quienes los pobladores de esa zona rural respetaban y tem�an. Tras el macabro hallazgo, las sospechas y habladur�as recaer�n sobre un grupo de muchachos del pueblo, a quienes d�as antes una vecina vio mientras hu�an de casa de la hechicera, cargando lo que parec�a ser un cuerpo inerte. A partir de ah�, los personajes involucrados en el crimen nos contar�n su historia mientras los lectores nos sumergimos en la vida de este lugar acosado por la miseria y el abandono, y donde convergen la violencia del erotismo m�s oscuro y las s�rdidas relaciones de poder. Otros autores han opinado: "Un viaje nocturno a las profundidades del alma humana con el estilo m�s radical de su generaci�n." -Mart�n Solares- "Fernanda Melchor no s�lo escribe con la potencia rabiosa que le reclaman los temas que ha decidido investigar, sino que en cada p�gina muestra un o�do y una agudeza pocas veces vista en nuestra literatura." -Yuri Herrera- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A raw, heartrending novel that traps the reader in the words and atmosphere of terrible yet pleasurable destiny. A group of children finds a cadaver floating in the murky waters of an irrigation canal near the La Matosa ranch area. The body turns out to be that of The Witch, a woman who inherited the trade from her deceased mother, and whom the inhabitants of this rural region respected and feared. After the macabre discovery, the suspicions and rumors fall on a group of boys from the town, who were seen days before, fleeing from the sorceress's house, carrying what appeared to be a motionless body. From there, the characters involved in the crime tell us their story while we are submerged in the life of this place, hounded by misery and neglect, and where the violence of dark eroticism and sordid power relationships converge.

Temporada de Huracanes / Hurricane Season

Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise

Las cr�nicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradaci�n humana en uno de sus aspectos m�s s�rdidos. Lo que su libro hace es manifestar la ignominia en toda esta rudeza. Aqu� no es Miami es un libro de cr�nicas devastador, luminoso y emotivo. Con facilidad nos lleva de la mano por toda una gama de sentimientos que van de la compasi�n al asombro, de la dulzura a la impiedad. Parece que est� escrito por un sobreviviente, o, digamos, por un exconvicto. El ojo de Fernanda Melchor es implacable. Mira por nosotros. Nos ahorra el trabajo de desplazarnos a Veracruz y de atisbar en las oquedades m�s profundas de aquellos hombres forjados en la lucha por la sobrevivencia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Fernanda Melchor's chronicles recount human degradation at its most shameful and disgusting aspects. This Is Not Miami is a devastating, eye-opening, and emotional compilation of stories that bring forth and shed light on great brutality and atrocities. She smoothly guides us through feelings that range from compassion to admiration, and harmony to the unkind. It reads as if it were written by a survivor, or an ex-convict; her judgement and discernment is unyielding. She does the ground work for us, of going to Veracruz and taking a glimpse into the lives of those men and their struggle for survival.

Aquí No Es Miami / This Is Not Miami

This Is Not Miami

A searing collection of true stories from “one of Mexico’s most exciting new voices” (The Guardian) Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories—spiraling from real events—that bleed together reportage and the author’s rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them—and even empathize—despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor’s masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

This is Not Miami

Stagione di uragani

Con un ritmo y un lenguaje magistrales, Fernanda Melchor, autora de Falsa liebre explora en esta obra las sinrazones que subyacen a los actos más desesperados de barbarie pasional. Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedará envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atmósfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad. Un grupo de niños encuentra un cadáver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la ranchería de La Matosa. El cuerpo resulta ser de la Bruja, una mujer que heredó dicho oficio de su madre fallecida, y a quienes los pobladores de esa zona rural respetaban y temían. Tras el macabro hallazgo, las sospechas y habladurías recaerán sobre un grupo de muchachos del pueblo, a quienes días antes una vecina vio mientras huían de casa de la hechicera, cargando lo que parecía ser un cuerpo inerte. A partir de ahí, los personajes involucrados en el crimen nos contarán su historia mientras los lectores nos sumergimos en la vida de este lugar acosado por la miseria y el abandono, y donde convergen la violencia del erotismo más oscuro y las sórdidas relaciones de poder.

Temporada de huracanes

Alfonso Valencia

Emiliano Monge

Antonio Ortuño

Daniela Tarazona

Brenda Lozano

Jaime Mesa

Daniel Espartaco Sánchez

Luis Panini

Karla Zárate

Aniela Rodríguez

César Albarrán

Verónica Gerber

Franco Felix

Paulette Jonguitud

Nicolas Cabral

Gabriel Wolfson

Lola Ancira

Oswaldo Zavala

Mariel Iribe Zenil

Luis Carlos Fuentes

Daniela Bojórquez

"Islas bañadas por el mismo mar y con corrientes comunicantes", así definía David Miklos los proyectos narrativos incluidos en el primer volumen de esta antología, que Malaletra difundió gratuitamente en 2015. Este libro completa aquel primer esfuerzo e incluye 22 relatos inéditos de escritoras y escritores mexicanos nacidos a partir de 1975. "Apenas una sana muestra de lo que ocurre actualmente en la narrativa mexicana", pero representativa de "un ánimo liberado –es decir: desgeneracionalizado". "Sigo pensando en que esta generación, por así llamarla, está compuesta por personas alérgicas al conjunto, seres independientes que aprendieron muy pronto a desmarcarse de la naturaleza patriarcal y mercadotécnica del Boom, así como del manifiesto nunca del todo logrado del Crack (y que en realidad era una resonancia local del propio Boom)". David Miklos (Compilador)

Narrativa mexicana joven

22 Voces Vols. 1 y 2

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers twelve devastating stories that spiral from real events. These cronicás—a genre unique to Latin American writing, blending reportage and fiction—probe the motivations of murderers and misfits, compelling us to understand or even empathise with them. Melchor is like a ventriloquist, using a range of distinctive voices to evoke the smells, sounds and words of this fascinating world that includes mistreated women, damaged families, refugees, prisoners and even a beauty queen. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor’s masterful stories show how the violent and shocking events that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos. Fernanda Melchor was born in 1982 in Veracruz, Mexico. She is widely recognised as ‘one of Mexico’s most exciting new voices’ (Guardian). She won the Anna-Seghers-Preis and the International Literature Award for Hurricane Season, which was also longlisted for the National Book Award, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book. Her most recent novel, Paradais, was published in 2022 and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. This Is Not Miami is a collection of narrative non-fiction pieces. Melchor’s books are published in thirty-four territories. She lives in Mexico. Sophie Hughes has translated works by Laia Jufresa and Enrique Vila-Matas, among others. Her translation of Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. She has also translated Melchor’s recent novel Paradais and her collection of non-fiction pieces, This Is Not Miami. In 2021 she was awarded the Queen Sofía Translation Prize. ‘Melchor evokes the stories of Flannery O’Connor, or Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings. Impressive.’ New York Times ‘[Hurricane Season and Paradais] establish Melchor...as the latest of Faulkner’s Latin American inheritors, and among the most formidable...Melchor’s prose is muscular but always attentive to the world of the senses and carried forward by an impeccable ear...She isn’t holding a Stendhalian mirror up to Mexican society; she’s dissecting its body and its psyche at the same time, unafraid of what she might find.’ New Yorker

«Debajo de lo que Fernanda Melchor escribe, ya sean cuentos o crónicas, está latiendo siempre la voz de la poesía.» Julián Herbert En una época de límites borrosos entre la verdad y la mentira, este libro aborda lúcidamente las condiciones que germinaron el terror de la llamada Guerra contra el Narco en el estado de Veracruz. Aquí no hay datos sueltos sino historias que trascienden con soltura las casillas del periodismo, formas literarias que revelan el sentido oculto detrás de lo cotidiano y de lo extraño. A través de la memoria personal, la crónica, el cuento de terror, y con una mirada honda y compasiva, cruda y directa, la autora nos confronta con relatos conmovedores en cuyo centro pulsa la lucha por la supervivencia.

Aquí no es Miami

Falsa Liebre

Falsa liebre

Czas huraganów

“Aku bunuh mereka semua, supaya orang-orang mengira ada alasan lain! Perampokan! Balas dendam! Oh, atau aku tahu, kita bisa potong-potong mereka, jadi, orang-orang pikir itu kerjaannya kartel narkoba!” Polo tak menyangka, sesumbar Franco Andrade untuk menempuh cara paling brutal demi memuaskan hasrat seksual terhadap Nyonya Marián yang selama ini menjadi fantasi belaka itu ternyata benar-benar dilakukan. Sialnya, Polo menjadi satu-satunya orang yang dilibatkan untuk membantu Franco melancarkan aksinya. Malam itu, suara tembakan Franco memecah kesunyian malam di Paradais, tempat bertemunya mitos, hasrat, dan kebengisan, sekaligus saksi bisu segala realitas, kerapuhan, dan cermin isu sosial masyarakat menengah Meksiko: ras, kelas, dan kriminalitas.

Temporada de Furacões

Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by the award-winning translator Sophie Hughes.

Fernanda Melchor

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