Hurricane Season by Melchor Signed First Edition Reference

Temporada de huracanes (2017; English: New Directions, 2020, translated by Sophie Hughes) is Melchor’s breakthrough novel — a single-breath narrative that follows the discovery of a murdered village witch in rural Veracruz, unspooling the interconnected lives of the villagers in long, unpunctuated paragraphs that owe as much to Faulkner as to Juan Rulfo. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

First Edition Identification

English First (New Directions, 2020)

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing, New York
• Translated by Sophie Hughes
• New Directions Paperbook original (no hardcover edition)
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2896-9

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed English first: $30–$60
• Unsigned English first: $8–$15

Note that Hurricane Season was published as a paperback original by New Directions, which means there is no hardcover first edition. Signed copies of the paperback are the collector’s target.