Still Born
(Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover for "Still Born"
Your Rating: 0 stars
Star rating for
Author:
Nettel, Guadalupe
Translator:
Harvey, Rosalind
Published:
Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
Format:
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read
Status:
Available from OverDrive

Description

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).

Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own.

Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth – after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite – and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them.

In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon's touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.

Also in This Series

Formats

Kindle Book
Works on Kindles and devices with a Kindle app installed.
Sample 
OverDrive Read
Sample 
Need Help?
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.

More Like This

Other Editions and Formats

Choose a Format
On Shelf
Loveland Adult Fiction
Nettel, G.
Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection
Online OverDrive Collection

Subjects

Subjects
Fiction
Literature

More Details

Street Date:
08/08/2023
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781639730049
ASIN:
B0BQ3ZRSK1

Borrower Reviews

Librarian Reviews

Published Reviews

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Tagging

Tags:

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!


Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Guadalupe Nettel. (2023). Still Born. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Guadalupe Nettel. 2023. Still Born. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Guadalupe Nettel. Still Born. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

Copy Details

LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection11
Loveland Public Library00

Staff View

Grouped Work ID:
fe576344-8580-1827-e7cf-98429d051808
Go To Grouped Work

QR Code

API Extraction Dates

Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Jul 29, 2023 18:45:55
Date Updated:
Jul 29, 2023 18:45:55
Last Metadata Check:
Dec 22, 2024 05:07:49
Last Metadata Change:
Nov 24, 2024 04:45:45
Last Availability Check:
Dec 22, 2024 05:07:50
Last Availability Change:
Nov 04, 2024 21:58:22
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Dec 27, 2024 01:38:53

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2183-1/{B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2183-1/{B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2183-1/{B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2183-1/{B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781639730049
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781639730049
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781639730032
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Guadalupe Nettel
isOwnedByCollections
False
title
Still Born
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=114&titleID=9500435
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Front Range Downloadable Library (CO)
          • id: 1100
sortTitle
Still Born
crossRefId
9500435
id
B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6
starRating
0

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain
False
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2183-1/{B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6}IMG100.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2183-1/{B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6}IMG200.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2183-1/{B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6}IMG150.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2183-1/{B3C84667-1141-4E8E-8475-60FD940E1CD6}IMG400.JPG
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
formats
      • fileName: StillBorn_9500435
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ASIN
            • value: B0BQ3ZRSK1
      • name: Kindle Book
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-kindle
      • onSaleDate: 8/8/2023
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b3c84667-1141-4e8e-8475-60fd940e1cd6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: StillBorn_9781639730049_9500435
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9781639730049
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 8/8/2023
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b3c84667-1141-4e8e-8475-60fd940e1cd6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
keywords
      • value: work life balance
      • value: family
      • value: motherhood
      • value: childbirth
      • value: caretaking
      • value: Mexican
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Science
      • value: marriage
      • value: women
      • value: parenthood
      • value: novel
      • value: grief
      • value: Latina
      • value: Medicine
      • value: Career
      • value: depression
      • value: international fiction
      • value: fiction in translation
      • value: latinx
      • value: difficult pregnancy
      • value: Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Nettel, Guadalupe
      • bioText: Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator and educator from the UK. Harvey's work has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, Guardian First Book Award, and the Oxford–Weidenfeld Translation Prize, amongst others. Harvey is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Arts Foundation Fellow, a committee member of the Translators Association, and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Network.
      • name: Guadalupe Nettel
      • role: Translator
      • fileAs: Harvey, Rosalind
      • name: Rosalind Harvey
subjects
      • value: Fiction
      • value: Literature
publishDate
2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
publishDateText
08/08/2023
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781639730032
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).

Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own.

Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth – after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite – and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women...
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Still Born
fullDescription
Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).

Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own.

Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth – after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite – and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them.

In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon's touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.
sortTitle
Still Born
crossRefId
9500435
popularity
1657
publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BvwAAAA25/products/b3c84667-1141-4e8e-8475-60fd940e1cd6/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
    • shareInLibby:
        • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=E_eQAEqDkIE
        • type: text/HTML
id
b3c84667-1141-4e8e-8475-60fd940e1cd6
starRating
4.1
bisacCodes
      • code: FIC019000
      • description: Fiction / Literary
      • code: FIC044000
      • description: Fiction / Contemporary Women
      • code: FIC045000
      • description: Fiction / Family Life / General