This Is Not Miami

By: Fernanda Melchor

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Paperback | 4 April 2023

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192 Pages

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Fernanda Melchor blends reportage with her distinctive narrative style in this collection of stories

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers twelve devastating stories that spiral from real events. These cronicas-a genre unique to Latin American writing, blending reportage and fiction-probe the motivations of murderers and misfits, compelling us to understand or even empathise with them. Melchor is like a ventriloquist, using a range of distinctive voices to evoke the smells, sounds and words of this fascinating world that includes mistreated women, damaged families, refugees, prisoners and even a beauty queen.

As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking events that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

About the Author

Fernanda Melchor was born in 1982 in Veracruz, Mexico. She is widely recognised as one of Mexico's most exciting new voices. She won the Anna-Seghers-Preis and the International Literature Award for Hurricane Season, which was also longlisted for the National Book Award, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book. Her most recent novel, Paradais, was published in 2022 and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. This Is Not Miami is a collection of narrative non-fiction pieces. Melchor's books are published in thirty-four territories. She lives in Mexico.

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