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After The Winter
by Guadalupe Nettel
(Maclehose Press, £14.99)
IN AFTER the Winter, Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel attempts to answer some big questions. What does it mean to live as a Latin American in exile? What binds these experiences together, if at all? How is this diaspora understood and recounted in a modern age of globalisation and mass migration?
In a powerful story, exquisitely translated by Rosalind Harvey, Nettel engagingly charts the tribulations of Cecilia, a shy young Mexican woman from Oaxaca who decides to move to Paris to finish a thesis on Latin American literature and Claudio, a Cuban exiled from Old Havana, who works in publishing.
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