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Book:Name: Guadalupe Nettel - Still Born (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 781.71 KB
Description:Title: Still Born
Author: Guadalupe Nettel
Language: English
Year: 2022
Subjects: Fiction, Literature
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781804270769
Total pages: 93 str.
Download from RapidGatorShortlisted 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...
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