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Guadalupe Nettel

Biography

Guadalupe Nettel

Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four internationally award-winning novels --- EL HUÉSPED, THE BODY WHERE I WAS BORN, AFTER THE WINTE and STILL BORN --- and three collections of short stories. Her work has been translated into more than 10 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.

Guadalupe Nettel

Books by Guadalupe Nettel

Still Born
written by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-30s, 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 made 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.