A Father Is Born

By: Andres Neuman, Robin Myers (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 November 2025

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180 Pages

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The moving story of a man becoming a father, written by the winner of the 2009 Alfaguara Award.

'I am delighted that we are together, my son, becoming what we will both be.'

A man awaits his son's birth. Captivated, he follows the mother's pregnancy, imagining the child that will transform his house, his language, his relationship, and his family history. For a year, he annotates the memorable first steps leading the three of them into these new existential situations: being a father, a mother, a son; three different characters in a universal story, told in newly born words. A situation further complicated when the child begins speaking and articulating his world.

A Father Is Bornis a lyrical tale that resonates both on intimate and collective levels. Its understanding of fatherhood faces masculinity with the miracle of life and its incessant rereading of the present. In a time that redefines traditionally attributed roles, A Father Is Bornaccepts Anne Waldman's invitation:'Tell the man to give up tumult for the while / To wonder at the sight of baby's beauty.'But it is also, and above all, a love statement.

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