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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... Read More
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The Accidentals

Deft and disquieting, oscillating between the real and the fantastical,Β The AccidentalsΒ is the brilliant new short story collection from International Booker-shortlisted duo Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey.


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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804271476

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Contributors:

  • Translated by Rosalind Harvey

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 125.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Guadalupe Nettel was born in Mexico and grew up between Mexico and France. She is the author of the international award winning novelsΒ El huΓ©spedΒ [The Guest] (2006),Β The Body Where I Was BornΒ (2011),Β After the WinterΒ (2014, Herralde Novel Prize) andΒ Still BornΒ (2020) and four collections of short stories, all published by Anagrama, the most prestigious of all Spanish-language publishing houses. Her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and has appeared in publications such as Granta,Β The White Review,Β El PaΓ­s, theΒ New York Times,Β La RepubblicaΒ andΒ La Stampa. She currently lives in Mexico City where she's the director of the magazine Revista de la Universidad de MΓ©xico.

Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator and educator from Bristol and now based in Coventry in the West Midlands. She has translated writers such as Juan Pablo Villalobos, Elvira Navarro, Alberto Barrera Tyszka, and Enrique Vila-Matas, and her work has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, amongst others. She 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.


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