Awards

• Long-listed for Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2016

Overview

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. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood-in which she was born with a birth defect into a family intent on fixing it-having somehow survived the emotional havoc she went through. And survive she did, but not unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self- a sharp, sensitive girl who is keen to life's gifts and hardships. With bare language and smart humor, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching moments together to create a portrait of an unconventional childhood that crushed her, scarred her, mended her, tore her apart, and ultimately made her whole.

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Nettel s work is spare, smart, and captivating... --Kate Schatz in Signature-reads.com

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In June 2013, Granta featured GUADALUPE NETTEL in their ""Best Untranslated Writers"" series. In 2013, she won the Ribera del Duero Short Fiction Award for Natural Histories, which became her U.S. debut in 2014 when Seven Stories published it in the English translation by J.T. Lichtenstein. The Body Where I was Born is her second book published in English. Her work has received international critical acclaim and awards, and has been translated into French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, and Swedish.

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