The wandering protagonists of these eight short stories are forced off course and into unfamiliar, strange territories. Like disoriented albatrosses. A girl meets her estranged—for mysterious reasons—ailing uncle after years. A dark force threatens a family retreating to the countryside amid Covid. A couple inhabits a terrifying world where it is better to sleep. A man tries to stave off marital boredom by embarking on a dangerous temporal experiment. A failed actor moves into the home of a now-famous former classmate, hoping for a change of fortune.
An uncanny and dark literary universe whose heroes confront their fears and limits in an attempt to find their way back.
Author:
Guadalupe Nettel
Translation:
Nanna Papanikolaou
Cover design/illustration:
Christos Kourtoglou
Publication:
2026
Categories:
Literature, Books, Foreign Literature
Guadalupe Nettel
Guadalupe Nettel was born in Mexico in 1973 and grew up between Mexico and France. She obtained a PhD in Linguistics from the EHESS in Paris. She is the author of the award-winning novels *El huésped* (2006), *El cuerpo en que nací* (2011) and *Después del invierno* (2014, Herralde Novel Prize). She has also published three collections of short stories. Her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and published in publications such as Granta, The White Review, El País, The New York Times, La Repubblica and La Stampa. She currently lives in Mexico City, where she is editor-in-chief of the magazine Revista de la Universidad de México.
