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This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the trajectory of Hurricane Season (2017) by Fernanda Melchor to explain the remarkable speed with which a novel initially published in Mexico became a global publishing phenomenon. Through a case study that combines textual analysis, sociology of literature, and media convergence studies, it reconstructs the links—editorial, award-related, translational, and audiovisual—that synergistically acted to position the work on the global literary scene. The theoretical framework integrates Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital, Pascale Casanova’s literary geopolitics, Itamar Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory, and Aarón Barrera Enderle’s concept of «Alfaguarization.» The research demonstrates that the international success of the novel depends as much on its aesthetic radicalism—torrential polyphony, Veracruz oral tradition, ...