Guadalupe Nettel
1) El huésped
Author
Publisher
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Esta es la extraña historia de una niña habitada interiormente por un huésped inquietante, quizás imaginario, quizás no. Ana sostiene una lucha silenciosa contra esa hermana siamesa, hasta que esta comienza a manifestarse en su entorno familiar de una manera devastadora. Alrededor de esa presencia se fraguan los acontecimientos de su vida. Ana sabe que, tarde o temprano, ocurrirá en ella un desdoblamiento.Esta novela describe un largo adiós...
Author
Series
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Le Monde Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and entwining stories that move from Havana to Paris to New York City, no routine, no argument for the pleasures of solitude, can withstand our most human drive to find ourselves in another, and fall in love. And no depth of emotion...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human foibles. Following on the critical successes of her previous books, here are six stories that capture her unsettling, obsessive universe. "Ptosis" is told from the point of view of the son of a photographer whose work involves...
4) Still born
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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...
