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Adrift in strange lands: The Accidentals, by Guadalupe Nettel, reviewed

A sense of unease runs through Nettel’s latest short stories as the protagonists start to lose their bearings in increasingly unfamiliar scenarios

Lee Langley
Guadalupe Nettel.  Mely Ávila
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 26 April 2025
issue 26 April 2025

Borders have always played an important part in Mexican literature. Not only geographical/political frontiers but the more porous boundaries between past and present, the living and the dead. Between what is real and what is not. Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz and Juan Rulfo were all drawn to this shifting, unreliable territory.

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