The Marriage of the Red Fish 11
War in the Trash Cans 41
Felina 61
Fungus 83
The Snake from Beijing 103
The New York Times described GUADALUPE NETTEL's acclaimed English language debut collection, Natural Histories (Seven Stories, 2014), as "five flawless stories." A Bogotá 39 author and Granta "Best Untranslated Writer," Nettel has received numerous prestigious awards, including the 2023 El Grand Balam Literary Prize "for her intimate psychological explorations of individuals marginalized from themselves by an often cruel, inexplicable, and wondrous world," the Gilberto Owen National Literature Prize, the Antonin Artaud Prize, the Ribera del Duero Short Fiction Award, and the 2014 Herralde Novel Prize. Her novel, Still Born (Bloomsbury), was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. In 2015 Seven Stories published her first novel, The Body Where I Was Born. In 2018 her second novel, After the Winter, was published by Coffee House Press. Nettel lives and works in Mexico City.
"Five flawless stories ... Nettel creates marvelous parallels
between the sorrows and follies of her human characters and the
creatures they live with." —Carmela Ciuraru, The New York
Times
"The gaze [Nettel] turns on madnesses both temperate and
destructive, on manias, on deviances, is so sharp that it has us
seeing straight into our own obsessions." —Xavier Houssain, Le
Monde
"Guadalupe Nettel is one of the most interesting voices of the new
Mexican fiction." —J.A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia
"Seasoned readers will delight in this literary voice, new to the
landscape of Latin American literature, a voice sophisticated as it
is original." —Arcadia
"Guadalupe Nettel reveals the subliminal beauty within beings of
odd behavior and painstakingly examines the intimacies of her
soul." —Magazine Littéraire
"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." —Juan Gabriel Vásquez
"The career of this young storyteller is worth keeping an eye on. A
master of style, with a marvelous poetic naturalism, her ideas and
manners distinguish her from what we are accustomed to in Mexican
literature." —Joaquin Marco, El Cultural
"Beautifully translated from the Spanish by J. T.
Lichtenstein, Natural Histories delivers everything you
want from a short story collection. Guadalupe Nettel’s storytelling
power is majestic. With an unflinching eye, time and time again,
she drives readers on an exploratory safari into the heart of human
nature. Funny, touching, terrifying, horrific and/or sad-you never
know what you’ll find when you tentatively set out in search of
potential dangers, but one thing is abundantly clear: safe in her
skilled hands, each journey holds the promise of being a life
changing event." —Typographical Era
"These stories are an interesting, arresting study of how their
lives mirror our own." —Gretchen Wagner, San Francisco Book
Review
"One that stood out for me in particular among these very good
books is Natural Histories by Guadalupe Nettel,
translated by J. T. Lichtenstein. Nettel is a wonderful Mexican
writer, and each of the stories in this slim collection, published
by Seven Stories, takes a wry philosophical look at the
relationship between people and the creatures they live with –
whether a pair of pet fish or an infestation of
cockroaches." —Jonathan Lee, Electronic Literature
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