The Body Where I Was Born

✍ Scribed by Guadalupe Nettel; translated from the Spanish by J. T. Lichtenstein

• Book ID: 108574100
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: ar-SA
• Weight: 90 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781609805265

✦ Synopsis

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...