The Witch is a highly reviled figure in the village, an object of malicious gossip and pretty much an outcast to most of La Matosa’s inhabitants.
The identity of the corpse is no big secret, the boys immediately identify it as that of the Witch. In the first chapter, the shortest of the eight, a group of boys playing in the fields come across a corpse floating in the irrigation canal. The novel is set in the village of La Matosa – a few miles from the town or city of Villa – a decrepit place of abject poverty dotted with roughly built shacks and surrounded by sugarcane fields. Right from the beginning, the pace of Hurricane Season never lets up. Not surprisingly, it has been shortlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize and widely touted to win it.
Hurricane Season caught my eye as soon as it was published and the slew of positive reviews only fuelled my appetite.
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