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Still Born

By Guadalupe Nettel

Still Born Contemporary literature

Still Born

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Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive). Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own. Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth - after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite - and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them. In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon's touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.
Product details
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2023-08-08
Publication Date:
2023-08-08
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1639730036
ISBN13:
9781639730032
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
372 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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