The First Decade Collection is a limited edition series of ten hardbacks celebrating the breadth of Fitzcarraldo Editions’ publishing over the first ten years. With a run of 1000 copies, each book is casebound in fine linen cloth and features signed and numbered book plates, a belly band and custom marbled endpapers.
The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Melchor’s first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes.
