An evening with Guadalupe Nettel

The West Kirby Bookshop are thrilled to welcome the acclaimed Mexican writer, Guadalupe Nettel to the bookshop, to celebrate the UK publication of her short story collection, The Accidentals (translated by Rosalind Harvey).

Join us on Thursday 5th June at 7pm, when Guadalupe will be in conversation about the book, answering questions from the audience, and signing copies of The Accidental.
Tickets are £6 general admission or £15 including a copy of the book. Complimentary drinks will be provided on the night.

Tickets are non-refundable but if you can't make the event and would like to reserve a signed/dedicated of the book, do get in touch.

We look forward to seeing you there!

About The Accidentals:

‘Guadalupe Nettel yet again walks into uncertain terrain with these mysterious stories. There are secrets everywhere, she says, especially in life’s most intimate and familiar aspects. The Accidentals never loses its sense of things being out of joint, and Nettel explores these fears with calm and with beauty.’ --- Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night

‘I adored this collection, it spread its roots out within me. Nettel is an extraordinary writer.’ --- Daisy Johnson, author of The Hotel

‘Nettel is one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature…. I envy how naturally she makes use of language; her resistance to ornamentation and artifice; and the almost stoic fortitude with which she dispenses her profound and penetrating knowledge of human nature.’ --- Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive

‘I love the work of Guadalupe Nettel, one of Mexico’s greatest living writers. Her fiction is brilliant and original, always suffused with sensuality and strange science.’
--- Paul Theroux, author of The Mosquito Coast

When an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an ‘accidental’, an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary courses of their lives disrupted by an unexpected event and are pushed into unfamiliar terrain: a girl encounters her uncle in hospital, who was cast out of the family for reasons unknown; a menacing force hovers over a fracturing family on a rural holiday; a couple and their children inhabit a stifling world where it is better to be asleep than awake; a man’s desire for a solution to his marital dissatisfaction has unforeseen consequences. Deft and disquieting, oscillating between the real and the fantastical, The Accidentals is the brilliant new book from International Booker-shortlisted duo Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey.

About Guadalupe Nettel:

Guadalupe Nettel is a Mexican author of award-winning novels and short story collections. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for theatre and film. Still Born, her most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. In 2008 she received a PhD in Literature from the EHESS in Paris. She has edited cultural and literary magazines such as Número Cero and Revista de la Universidad de México. She lives in Paris as a writer in residence at the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination.