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020			_a9781609806057
050	0	0	_aPQ7298.424.E76 _bM3813 2014
082	1		_aLAS FIC NET _2
100	1		_aNettel, Guadalupe _d(1973 -)
245	1	0	_aNatural Histories _c/ Guadalupe Nettel
250			_aFirst English-language edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Seven Stories Press _c, 2014
300			_a125 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aIn 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.
546			_aTranslated from the Spanish to English.
600	1	0	_aNettel, Guadalupe _d(1973 -) _v--Translations into English.
650		4	_aShort stories
650		4	_aFamily life _v--Fiction
700	1		_aLichtenstein, J. T., _d(1986)
942			_cLAS
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