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What does Guadalupe Nettel read in confinement?

4/23/2020, 9:58:12 PM


The Mexican writer, who will publish The Only Daughter this year, recommends veteran authors such as Vivian Gornick or Annie Ernaux, but also her compatriot Yael Weiss

Guadalupe Nettel connects from her home in Mexico City, where confinement lives with obvious concern. In autumn, the publication of her new novel, The Only Daughter, is planned , a true story of a baby born with no chance of survival in the home of a close friend. The author (Mexico City, 1973) who won the Herralde award in 2014 with After the Winter and who creatively edits the magazine of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), is also a woman committed to equality, a regular whistleblower of the gender violence and abuse. Her next novel, The Only Daughter , will be published this year by Anagrama.

Nettel recommends:

- Fierce Attachments, by Vivian Gornick (Sixth Floor).

- Without destination, by Imre Kertesz (Cliff).

- The frozen woman, by Annie Ernaux (Cabaret Voltaire).

- Misfortune, by JM Coetzee (Mondadori).

- Hematoma, by Yael Weiss (Elefanta).