The Body Where I was Born

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The Body Where I was Born

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction.
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From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhoodâ€”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 selfâ€”a fierce and discerning girl open to lifeâ€™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 memoriesâ€”taking us from Mexico City to Aix-en-Provence, France, then back home againâ€”to create a portrait of the artist as a young girl. In these pages, Nettelâ€™s art of storytelling transforms experience into inspiration and a new startling perception of reality.

"Nettel's eyeâ€¦gives rise to a tension, subtle but persistent, that immerses us in an uncomfortable reality, disquieting, even disturbingâ€”a gaze that illuminates her prose like an alien sun shining down on our world." â€”Valeria Luiselli, author ofÂ SidewalksÂ andÂ Faces in the Crowd
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"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." â€”Juan Gabriel VÃ¡squez, author ofÂ The Sound of Things Falling
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"Nettel reveals the subliminal beauty within beingsâ€¦and painstakingly examines the intimacies of her soul." â€”Magazine LittÃ©raire
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â€œGuadalupe Nettelâ€™s storytelling power is majestic."â€”Typographical Era
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In Praise ofÂ Natural Histories
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"Five flawless stories..." â€”The New York Times
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â€œNettelâ€™s stories are as atmospheric and emotionally battering as Checkhovâ€™s.â€â€”Asymptote

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Guadalupe Nettel
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781609805272
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer	Seven Stories Press
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2015-06-16
Publisher	Seven Stories Press
ReleaseDate	2015-06-23
Studio	Seven Stories Press

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