A novel comprising just eight paragraphs has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. The shortlist for the £50,000 prize, celebrating the best translated fiction from around the world, was announced digitally because of coronavirus restrictions.
The six books explore “trauma, loss and sweeping illness”. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes from Spanish, has just eight paragraphs.
Each chapter is a single paragraph while one reviewer said it was “littered with profanities”. It opens with the “gruesome discovery of a murder victim”, but asks,”‘Why?’ rather than ‘Who?’” In “a propulsive translation, the eight paragraphs of this novel spiral down through layers of violence, corruption and desire,” the
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