Still Born
Language: English
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions August 2022, 2022
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London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023. Trade paperback. Flat signed by Ms. Nettel to title page. Light rubbing to edges. Very good.
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- Title
- Still Born
- Author
- Guadalupe Nettel
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions August 2022
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed By Author
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1913097668
- ISBN 13
- 9781913097660
- Seller catalogs
- CTL-Collectible Literature
Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel’s fourth novel, explores one of life’s most consequential decisions – whether or not to have children – with her signature charm and intelligence. 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 has taken the drastic decision to be sterilized, but as time goes by Alina becomes drawn to the idea of becoming a mother. When complications arise in Alina’s pregnancy and Laura becomes attached to her neighbour’s son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions. In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Still Born explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon’s touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.
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About the Author
Guadalupe Nettel is a Mexican author of award-winning novels and short story collections. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for theatre and film. Still Born, her most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. In 2008 she received a PhD in Literature from the EHESS in Paris. She has edited cultural and literary magazines such as Número Cero and Revista de la Universidad de México. She lives in Paris as a writer in residence at the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator and educator. She has translated writers such as Juan Pablo Villalobos, Katya Adaui and Elvira Navarro, and her work has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, among others. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Arts Foundation Fellow and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Network, and currently teaches on the MA in Literary Translation at the University of Warwick.
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