The Body Where I Was Born

Name: The Body Where I Was Born
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Guadalupe Nettel, J T Lichtenstein

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Seven Stories Press,U.S.
15 August 2017

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

By a much talked-about young writer from Mexico -- whose accolades include the Herralde Prize, the Ribera del Duero Prize, and inclusion in the Bogota 39 -- the novel of an unconventional childhood in the seventies, split between Mexico and Europe.

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. Born with an abnormality in her eye and a family intent on fixing it, she occupies 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, Guadalupe 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 The Body Where I Was Born, Nettel's artful storytelling transforms experience into inspiration and a new startling perception of reality.

By: Guadalupe Nettel
Translated by: J T Lichtenstein
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781609807511
ISBN 10: 1609807510
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 August 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

TheNew York Timesdescribed GUADALUPE NETTEL's acclaimed English language debut collection,Natural Histories (Seven Stories, 2014), as ""five flawless stories."" A Bogota 39 author andGranta""Best Untranslated Writer,"" Nettel has received numerous prestigious awards, including the 2023El Grand Balam Literary Prize ""for her intimate psychological explorations of individuals marginalized from themselves by an often cruel, inexplicable, and wondrous world,""the Gilberto Owen National Literature Prize, the Antonin Artaud Prize, the Ribera del Duero Short Fiction Award, and the 2014 Herralde Novel Prize. Her novel,Still Born(Bloomsbury), was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. In 2015 Seven Stories published her first novel,The Body Where I Was Born. In 2018 her second novel,After the Winter, was published by Coffee House Press. Nettel lives and works in Mexico City.