Still Born: Guadalupe Nettel

Nettel, Guadalupe

ISBN 10: 1913097668 / ISBN 13: 9781913097660

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022

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Synopsis:

Still Born is the story of two friends who make diametrically opposite choices in life. Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have ever built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision to be sterilised, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When Alina’s daughter survives childbirth – after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite – and Laura becomes attached to her neighbour’s son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions. With her signature candour and insight, Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon’s touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.

About the Author: Guadalupe Nettel was born in Mexico in 1973 and grew up between Mexico and France. She is the author of the international award-winning novels El huésped (2006), The Body Where I was Born (2011) and After the Winter (2014, Herralde Novel Prize). She has also published three collections of short stories: Les jours fossils (2002), Pétalos y otras historias incómodas (2008), Natural Histories (2013, Ribera del Duero Prize). In 2008 she was named by the Hay Festival as one of the more promising Latin American authors. Her work has been translated into more than ten languages and has appeared in publications such as Granta, The White Review, Le Magazine littéraire and L’Atelier du Roman. She currently lives in Mexico City where she is the director of the magazine Revista de la Universidad de México.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Still Born: Guadalupe Nettel
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Used; Very Good