Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After the Winter | 2014 | Guadalupe Nettel | Buy |
| 2 | Still Born | 2020 | Guadalupe Nettel | Buy |
Guadalupe Nettel has published two standalone novels available in English translation. After the Winter tells the parallel stories of Claudio, a reclusive Mexican man in New York obsessed with order, and Cecilia, a young woman in Paris fascinated by the cemetery outside her apartment. Their lives eventually converge in ways that are both unexpected and quietly devastating.
Still Born was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023. The novel follows Laura and Alina, close friends in Paris who had both decided not to have children, until one of them changes her mind. The story is less about the decision itself than about what happens to a friendship when two people who once saw the world the same way begin to see it differently.