{"title":"Guadalupe Nettel","description":"Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four international-award winning novels: El hu?sped, 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 M?xico.","products":[{"product_id":"still-born-paperback","title":"Still Born - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eLost Children Archive\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlina 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlina'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103172071647,"sku":"9781639735389","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oxrXqtRSZy9781639735389.webp?v=1781090424"},{"product_id":"the-accidentals-stories-hardcover","title":"The Accidentals: Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the International Booker Shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eStill Born\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful collection of stories about characters coping with estrangement, isolation, and the unknown.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcclaimed for her piercing insights and razor-sharp prose, award winning author Guadalupe Nettel introduces us to eight characters who are each in their own way lost and wandering, struggling to connect with the people around them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Imprinting,\" Nettel shows us a young woman finding an unexpected affinity with an estranged uncle, whose exile from the family is too deep a secret for his niece to know. She introduces us, in \"Life Elsewhere,\" to a frustrated actor who begins, without realizing it, to take over the life and house of a more successful former colleague. And in \"The Torpor,\" we meet a woman who lives with her children in a dying world where it is better to be asleep than awake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her signature bold, stark style of writing that makes her work \"a revelation\" (\u003ci\u003eKatie Kitamura, author of INTIMACIES\u003c\/i\u003e), this stunning collection interrogates humanity's struggle to communicate and reveals the universal longing for connection.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103236460767,"sku":"9781639734924","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/5MNO161Ecm9781639734924.webp?v=1781090545"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/guadalupe-nettel.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}