The Accidentals: Stories

The Accidentals: Stories - Hardcover

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The Accidentals: Stories - Hardcover

The Accidentals: Stories - Hardcover

by Guadalupe Nettel
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Book Overview

by Guadalupe Nettel (Author), Rosalind Harvey (Translator)

From the International Booker Shortlisted author of Still Born, a powerful collection of stories about characters coping with estrangement, isolation, and the unknown.

Acclaimed 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.

In "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.

With her signature bold, stark style of writing that makes her work "a revelation" (Katie Kitamura, author of INTIMACIES), this stunning collection interrogates humanity's struggle to communicate and reveals the universal longing for connection.

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: April 29, 2025
ISBN9781639734924
Author Guadalupe Nettel
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
GenreLiterature
FormatHardcover
PublishedApril 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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