
The Body Where I Was Born
Guadalupe Nettel(Author)
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 16. June 2015
Book
Hardback
178 pages
978-1-60980-526-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction.
From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood-in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self-a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.
With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both delicate and unafraid, Nettel strings together hard-won, unwieldy memories-taking us from Mexico City to Aix-en-Provence, France, then back home again-to create a portrait of the artist as a young girl. In these pages, Nettel's art of storytelling transforms experience into inspiration and a new startling perception of reality.
"Nettel's eye…gives rise to a tension, subtle but persistent, that immerses us in an uncomfortable reality, disquieting, even disturbing-a gaze that illuminates her prose like an alien sun shining down on our world." -Valeria Luiselli, author of Sidewalks and Faces in the Crowd
"It has been a long time since I've found in the literature of my generation a world as personal and untransferable as that of Guadalupe Nettel." -Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling
"Nettel reveals the subliminal beauty within beings…and painstakingly examines the intimacies of her soul." -Magazine Littéraire
"Guadalupe Nettel's storytelling power is majestic."-Typographical Era
In Praise of Natural Histories
"Five flawless stories..." -The New York Times
"Nettel's stories are as atmospheric and emotionally battering as Checkhov's."-Asymptote
From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood-in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self-a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.
With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both delicate and unafraid, Nettel strings together hard-won, unwieldy memories-taking us from Mexico City to Aix-en-Provence, France, then back home again-to create a portrait of the artist as a young girl. In these pages, Nettel's art of storytelling transforms experience into inspiration and a new startling perception of reality.
"Nettel's eye…gives rise to a tension, subtle but persistent, that immerses us in an uncomfortable reality, disquieting, even disturbing-a gaze that illuminates her prose like an alien sun shining down on our world." -Valeria Luiselli, author of Sidewalks and Faces in the Crowd
"It has been a long time since I've found in the literature of my generation a world as personal and untransferable as that of Guadalupe Nettel." -Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling
"Nettel reveals the subliminal beauty within beings…and painstakingly examines the intimacies of her soul." -Magazine Littéraire
"Guadalupe Nettel's storytelling power is majestic."-Typographical Era
In Praise of Natural Histories
"Five flawless stories..." -The New York Times
"Nettel's stories are as atmospheric and emotionally battering as Checkhov's."-Asymptote
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60980-526-5 (9781609805265)
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Guadalupe Nettel
The Body Where I was Born
E-Book
06/2015
Seven Stories Press
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Guadalupe Nettel, translated from the Spanish by J. T. Lichtenstein