| The Body Where I Was Born Contributor(s): Nettel, Guadalupe (Author), Lichtenstein, J. T. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1609805267 ISBN-13: 9781609805265 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: 863.7 |
| LCCN: 2015006198 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self--a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy. With raw language and a brilliant sense of humor, both delicate and unafraid, Nettel strings together hard-won, unwieldy memories--taking us from Mexico City to Aix-en-Provence, France, then back home again--to create a portrait of the artist as a young girl. In these pages, Nettel's art of storytelling transforms experience into inspiration and a new startling perception of reality. Nettel's eye...gives rise to a tension, subtle but persistent, that immerses us in an uncomfortable reality, disquieting, even disturbing--a gaze that illuminates her prose like an alien sun shining down on our world. --Valeria Luiselli, author of Sidewalks and Faces in the Crowd It has been a long time since I've found in the literature of my generation a world as personal and untransferable as that of Guadalupe Nettel. --Juan Gabriel V squez, author of The Sound of Things Falling Nettel reveals the subliminal beauty within beings...and painstakingly examines the intimacies of her soul. --Magazine Litt raire "Guadalupe Nettel's storytelling power is majestic.--Typographical Era In Praise of Natural Histories Five flawless stories... --The New York Times "Nettel's stories are as atmospheric and emotionally battering as Checkhov's."--Asymptote |
