And I don’t only mean their potential for motherhood, but a vital and powerful force that is different from the male counterpart.įM Before I start to write a novel, I tend to read a lot of fiction as a way of analysing structures that I find interesting or suitable for the project. Rather, it plays with the elements of a reality that I know very well.ĮSK Why do you think women, in particular, are regarded with so much fear?įM I think that women have a creative power that men envy. I couldn’t say that what happens in Temporada de Huracanes is real. I wanted to talked to talk about these practices and beliefs in the novel, but not with an ethnographic or sociological perspective, but by telling a story. There is a spirituality, of a Caribbean nature, with fascinating rituals, that emerged from the blend of European, African, and indigenous religions. In this novel I was interested in writing about the beliefs and practices that exist in a very specific region, the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. To what extent is this true in Mexico today?įM Mexico is a huge country there are several and very different Mexicos within it.
First, I thought I wanted to write a non-fiction novel, a literary reportage about the crime in the manner of In Cold Blood or The Executioner’s Song, but ultimately I thought it would be more interesting to explore this story and its context through fiction.ĮSK To the villagers of the imaginary town La Matosa, the various witches and mujeres malas of Mexican folklore, e.g. And unsurprisingly, this piqued my curiosity and I decided to do research on the whole story. I was shocked, especially due to the fact that in the 21st Century, neither the journalist, nor the police, nor the witnesses had even the shadow of a doubt that sorcery could be a justifiable motive for murder. The body, according to the article, belonged to a sorcerer from a nearby town, and the suspects detained by the police had killed him as self-defence against his spells. Elizabeth Sulis Kim Can you tell us a little bit about the real event that inspired this book?įernanda Melchor A few years ago, in a newspaper from Veracruz, where I was born, I read an article about a body that was found in an irrigation canal.
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