After the Winter: Guadalupe Nettel

Acclaimed Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel joins Brad Johnson, owner of East Bay Booksellers, to talk about her latest novel, After the Winter, brought into English by Rosalind Harvey.  A compassionately written portrait of urban loneliness and the human impulse to belong, After the Winter tells the intersecting stories of a man and woman living, respectively, in New York and Paris.

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About After the Winter

“Nettel’s sharp, potent novel depicts how even the briefest relationship can affect the rest of a life.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A compassionately written portrait of urban loneliness and the human impulse to belong.” —Kirkus

“Guadalupe Nettel is a brilliant anatomist of love and perversity, and each new book is a revelation.” —Katie Kitamura

“Guadalupe Nettel’s After the Winter is a dazzling excavation of the glimmering particularities of consciousness, and how a collision of fates can transform our inner worlds. This taut, atmospheric novel is an ode to the complicated heartbreak of loving what will forever be just out of reach.” —Laura van den Berg

In Havana, Paris, and New York City, Claudio and Cecilia succumb to our implacable movement toward love. Claudio’s apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and entwining stories that move from Havana to Paris to New York City, no routine, no argument for the pleasures of solitude, can withstand our most human drive to find ourselves in another and fall in love. And no depth of emotion can protect us from love’s inevitable loss.