Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel

"Both uplifting and gut-wrenching, often at the same time . . . At its heart, it is a story about the many different ways to be a family, and it made me reflect on what an honor it is to care for someone you truly love." -Dua Lipa

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.

Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico City, 1973) was voted one of the thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the 2006 Bogota Hay Festival. She is the author of Juegos de artificio (False Games), Les jours fossils (Fossil Days), Petalos y otras historias incomodas (Petals and other Awkward Stories), El huesped (The Host), El cuerpo en que naci (The Body Where I Was Born) and El matrimonio de los peces rojos (Natural Histories). She is the recipient of the Radio France International Award, the Anna Seghers prize, the Prix Antonin Artaud, the Gilberto Owen Short Story Prize and the Ribera del Duero Prize, and her work has been translated into more than ten languages. She lives in Mexico City.

Rosalind Harvey (translator) is a literary translator of contemporary Spanish writing. She has worked on books by many authors, such as Guadalupe Nettel, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Enrique Vila-Matas, Hector Abad, and Elvira Navarro. Her translations have been shortlisted for prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award, the Arts Foundation Award, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781639730032
ISBN 10	1639730036
Title	Still Born
Author	Guadalupe Nettel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Year published	2023-08-08
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Commended for Man Booker International Prize 2023
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