Join us on Tuesday, August 15th at 7pm PT when Guadalupe Nettel joins us to celebrate the English language release of her novel, Still Born, with Kathryn Haemmerle at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/DJAancyxEKI
Praise for Still Born
"Nettel is one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature . . . I envy how naturally she makes use of language; her resistance to ornamentation and artifice; and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature." --Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive
"Guadalupe Nettel is a brilliant anatomist of love and perversity, and each new book is a revelation." --Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
"In Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel renders with great veracity life as it is encountered in the everyday, taking us to the heart of the only things that really matter: life, death and our relationships with others. All of these are contained in the experience of motherhood, which this novel explores and deepens." --Annie Ernaux, author of The Years
About Still Born
Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
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.
About Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four internationally 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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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/DJAancyxEKI
Praise for Still Born
"Nettel is one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature . . . I envy how naturally she makes use of language; her resistance to ornamentation and artifice; and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature." --Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive
"Guadalupe Nettel is a brilliant anatomist of love and perversity, and each new book is a revelation." --Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
"In Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel renders with great veracity life as it is encountered in the everyday, taking us to the heart of the only things that really matter: life, death and our relationships with others. All of these are contained in the experience of motherhood, which this novel explores and deepens." --Annie Ernaux, author of The Years
About Still Born
Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
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.
About Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four internationally 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
Join us on Tuesday, August 15th at 7pm PT when Guadalupe Nettel joins us to celebrate the English language release of her novel, Still Born, with Kathryn Haemmerle at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/DJAancyxEKI
Praise for Still Born
"Nettel is one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature . . . I envy how naturally she makes use of language; her resistance to ornamentation and artifice; and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature." --Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive
"Guadalupe Nettel is a brilliant anatomist of love and perversity, and each new book is a revelation." --Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
"In Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel renders with great veracity life as it is encountered in the everyday, taking us to the heart of the only things that really matter: life, death and our relationships with others. All of these are contained in the experience of motherhood, which this novel explores and deepens." --Annie Ernaux, author of The Years
About Still Born
Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
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.
About Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four internationally 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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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/DJAancyxEKI
Praise for Still Born
"Nettel is one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature . . . I envy how naturally she makes use of language; her resistance to ornamentation and artifice; and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature." --Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive
"Guadalupe Nettel is a brilliant anatomist of love and perversity, and each new book is a revelation." --Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
"In Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel renders with great veracity life as it is encountered in the everyday, taking us to the heart of the only things that really matter: life, death and our relationships with others. All of these are contained in the experience of motherhood, which this novel explores and deepens." --Annie Ernaux, author of The Years
About Still Born
Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
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.
About Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four internationally 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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