After the Winter
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Claudio’s apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and entwining stories that move from Havana to Paris to New York City, no routine, no argument for the pleasures of solitude, can withstand our most human drive to find ourselves in another, and fall in love. And no depth of emotion can protect us from love’s inevitable loss.
“Nettel’s sharp, potent novel depicts how even the briefest relationship can affect the rest of a life.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A luminous writer of dark humor and wild insight. After the Winter is a deeply compassionate story about love, about how hard it is to know another—let alone ourselves—in all our strange glory. Yet, in the end, it is also a story about how essential it is, in spite of the pitfalls, to try.”—Nick Flynn, award-winning author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“Insightful and painfully poignant…examines the bonds between people, the degrees of intimacy and commitment we allow ourselves and the toll isolation can take upon the soul.” —Glasgow Herald
Editor's Note
Mature prose…
Guadalupe Nettel’s “After the Winter” was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela. The story is divided between two narrators: Cecilia, a postgraduate student from Oaxaca living in Paris, and Claudio, who moved in his youth from La Habana to New York alone. Two alienated souls in romanticized cities. As Nettel deconstructs their relationship, she makes you think about the assumptions we make about others, particularly significant others, and how we set ourselves for disappointment under that premise. That’s the skeleton, but be prepared for mature prose, freaky events and characters, and sullen undertones.
Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel (Ciudad de México, 1973) es autora de El huésped (finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela 2005) y sus posteriores y muy celebradas obras Pétalos y otras historias incómodas, El cuerpo en que nací, Después del invierno (Premio Herralde de Novela 2014), La hija única (finalista del Premio Booker Internacional 2023) y Los divagantes, publicadas en Anagrama. También ha escrito El matrimonio de los peces rojos (Premio Internacional de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero). Sus libros han sido traducidos a más de veinte lenguas y han obtenido, además, diversos galardones internacionales, como el Premio Nacional de Narrativa Gilberto Owen, el Antonin Artaud y el Anna Seghers. Entre las reseñas dedicadas a su obra cabe destacar: «Guadalupe Nettel revela la belleza subliminal que hay en los seres de comportamientos extraños y sondea minuciosamente la intimidad de su alma» (Le Magazine Littéraire); «Los lectores avezados disfrutarán de esa nueva voz literaria, tan sofisticada como original, en el panorama de las letras latinoamericanas» (Arcadia, Colombia); «Una de las más singulares escritoras mexicanas» (J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia); «La mirada que posa sobre las locuras suaves o destructoras, las manías, las desviaciones es de una agudeza tal que nos remite a nuestras propias obsesiones» (Xavier Houssin, Le Monde).
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