Still Born by Nettel, Guadalupe

Still Born

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of...
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Author: Guadalupe Nettel
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Language: English
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Still Born by Nettel, Guadalupe

Still Born

$54.60

Still Born

$54.60
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).

Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own.

Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth - after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite - and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them.

In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon's touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.

Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.84w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9781639730032


Award: Man Booker International Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/19/2023
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2023
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 20

About the Author
Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four international-award winning novels: El huésped, The Body Where I was Born, After the Winter, and Still Born; and three collections of short stories. Her work has been translated into more than ten languages and has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Granta, The White Review, and many others. She currently lives in Mexico City where she's the director of the magazine Revista de la Universidad de México.

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