Natural Histories / Guadalupe Nettel
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Seven Stories Press , 2014Edition: First English-language editionDescription: 125 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781609806057
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- PQ7298.424.E76 M3813 2014
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Latin American Studies | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | LAS FIC NET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 046421 |
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In each tale Nettel creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. These five dark and delicately written stories unfold in fragile worlds, where animal behaviors parallel the ways in which human beings interact with one another and react to their environments. Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, a cat, a snake, and a strange fungus are mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature we keep hidden, buried. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce or the struggle against it, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
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