The Body Where I Was Born

Name: The Body Where I Was Born
ISBN: 9788433972316

Guadalupe Nettel

2011·175 pages

Literary Fiction

coming of age self discovery

“For a long time I have not encountered, in the literature of my generation, a world as personal and non-transferable as that of Guadalupe Nettel.”
— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Inspired by the author's childhood, *The Body Where I Was Born* is the story of a girl with a birth defect in one eye. Her life, during the seventies, is influenced by her poor vision, but also by the dominant ideology of that era: e

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The Body Where I Was Born

Guadalupe Nettel

Year

2011

Pages

175

Literary Fiction

Praise

“For a long time I have not encountered, in the literature of my generation, a world as personal and non-transferable as that of Guadalupe Nettel.”
— Juan Gabriel Vásquez