Guadalupe Nettel: 8 books

Book cover of The Body Where I was Born
by Guadalupe Nettel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015

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...
Book cover of Octavio Paz. Las palabras en libertad
by Guadalupe Nettel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 3, 2014

Octavio Paz. Las palabras en libertad recorre el itinerario intelectual y biográfico de uno de los pensadores más importantes del siglo pasado y uno de los poetas hispanoamericanos más destacados de todos los tiempos. Escritor, diplomático, editor e intelectual público. De Guadalupe Nettel,...
Book cover of After the Winter
by Guadalupe Nettel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

• Guadalupe Nettel has already established a reputation for herself in this country with Natural Histories and The Body Where I Was Born, and we’re delighted to have yet another exceptional young Mexican writer join our already stellar Latin American list. • After the Winter is the prototypical...
Book cover of El matrimonio de los peces rojos
by Guadalupe Nettel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016

En estas cinco narraciones intensas y de atmósfera delicada, Guadalupe Nettel nos propone un cruce de caminos entre el mundo animal y el universo humano para hablar de temas tan naturales como la ferocidad de la vida en pareja, la maternidad "cuando es deseada y cuando no lo es", las crisis...
Book cover of Natural Histories
by Guadalupe Nettel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the...
Book cover of Bezoar

Bezoar

And Other Unsettling Stories

by Guadalupe Nettel
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019

One of the most important and watched writers of today. Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human foibles. Following...
Book cover of El cuerpo en que nací
by Guadalupe Nettel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 14, 2011

Inspirada en la infancia de la autora, El cuerpo en que nací es la historia de una niña con un defecto de nacimiento en un ojo. Su vida, durante los años setenta, se ve influida por su escasa visión pero también por la ideo­logía dominante en esa época: el matrimonio abierto de sus padres,...
Book cover of Después del invierno
by Guadalupe Nettel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 17, 2014

Claudio es cubano, vive en Nueva York y trabaja en una editorial. Cecilia es mexicana, vive en París y es estudiante. En el pasado de él hay recuerdos de La Habana y el dolor por la pérdida de su primera novia, y en su presente, la complicada relación con Ruth. En el pasado de ella hay una adolescencia...
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