Obabakoak (Spanish Edition) by Bernardo Atxaga

Obabakoak (Spanish Edition) by Bernardo Atxaga

A brilliantly inventive writer . he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny.--A.S. Byatt

Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial collection about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic Basque village. A schoolboy's miningengineer father tricks him into growing up, an unfortunate environmentalist rescues deceptively harmless lizards, and a rescue mission on a Swiss mountain-climbing expedition in Nepal turns into murder. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, while everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. Hints of darker undercurrents mingle with moments of wry humor in this dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts, and literary theory, all held together by Bernardo Atxaga's distinctive and tenderly ironic voice. An unforgettable work from an international literary giant, whom The Observer (London) listed among the top twenty-one writers of the twenty-first century.

Bernardo Atxaga (Joseba Irazu Garmendia, b. 1951) is an award-winning Basque writer, whose work spans adult and children's prose, poetry, radio, cinema and theatre, as well as short stories. He first achieved national and international fame with Obabakoak (1988), which won the National Literature Prize 1989 and has been translated into more than twenty languages. His novels have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad; most recently, Margaret Jull Costa's translation of Seven Houses in France was shortlisted for the 2012 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.

Born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the prize-winning writer and illustrator Mikel Valverde Fine Arts, where he started creating comics, and illustrations for his own stories. He and Bernardo Atxaga have published several books together since then, in addition to the Shola stories.

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ISBN 13	9788466332309
ISBN 10	8466332308
Title	Obabakoak (Spanish Edition)
Author	Bernardo Atxaga
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Suma de Letras
Year published	2016-10-05
Number of pages	488
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