Literary Fiction in Translation
Paradais
Fernanda Melchor · 2020
Two teenage boys at a gated luxury development drift toward a terrible act. English edition published by New Directions.
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Hurricane Season
by Fernanda Melchor
The murder of a woman known as the Witch in a Veracruz village, told in torrential prose. English edition published by New Directions.
- First published (per catalogue record)
- 2017
- Subgenre
- Literary Fiction in Translation
- Publisher (independent press)
- New Directions
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