The body where I was born / Guadalupe Nettel ; translated from the Spanish by J.T. Lichtenstein.
Language: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Seven Stories Press, 2017.Edition: A Seven Stories Press editionDescription: 175 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781609807511 (paperback)
- Cuerpo en que nací. English
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- PQ7298.424.E76 C8413 2017
- FIC041000 | FIC045000
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | NET | Available | 069350 |
"From a psychoanalysts 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." -- Back cover