Elena Alonso-Mira
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And yeah, she's inspired by him.
But within her generation, I would compare her maybe, if I could, with Yuri, Yuri Herrera and his books about narco.
And they're beautiful as well.
They're very poetic, but they're very brutal, like her own book is.
And yeah, he has two very famous books that have also been translated into English that are Signs Preceding the End of the World.
and the transmigration of bodies.
And this last one is actually about an epidemic.
So it's very, very good or very bad for these times because it's about people that have to lock themselves inside the house because there is a virus outside.
So he wrote a bit before all of this happened, but yeah, it's very current.
I think she said the title was chosen by her publisher, actually.
And she had a different title for it.
I can't remember what it was.
I just heard it in an interview at some point.
But she said that she actually liked hurricane season and it just mainly refers to the fact that in the book, when we read the first chapter and the second chapter, it's sort of set in the past and then there is a hurricane and there is a flooding and then it's sort of like the town is rebuilt.
but it isn't really because it keeps having the same problems.
And it's just because it's set in an area where there are a lot of hurricanes, but there is nothing more than that.
And the fact that it happens, there is sort of like a hurricane during the novel.
It's basically about a body that is found in an irrigation channel.
And we need to find out how it ended up there.
And basically what she read in the tabloid was that it was a crime of passion where a woman had been killed by her lover who was looking for money.