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Natural Histories: Stories, Guadalupe Nettel

Mary Woodbury

June 7, 2015

Translated by J.T. Lichtenstein.

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale 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.

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ISBN-10: 1609805518
ISBN-13: 9781609805517
Goodreads: 18310296

Author(s):
Guadalupe Nettel
J.T. Lichtenstein
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En estas cinco narraciones intensas y de atmósfera delicada, Guadalupe Nettel nos propone un cruce de caminos entre el mundo animal y el universo humano para hablar de temas tan naturales como la ferocidad de la vida en pareja, la maternidad –cuando es deseada y cuando no lo es–, las crisis existenciales de la adolescencia o los lazos inimaginables que pueden establecerse entre dos enamorados. Su mirada proyecta lo subterráneo y lo secreto de sus personajes, lo anómalo, lo inconfesable.

Los cuentos de El matrimonio de los peces rojos son espacios magistralmente construidos en los que nos preguntamos cómo y en qué momento se fraguan en nosotros las decisiones más íntimas y soterradas, aquellas que, sin sospecharlo, marcarán de manera definitiva nuestra existencia.
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