Bernardo Atxaga

• Apr-1993
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One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries, Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellec...

• Dec-1996
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• Feb-2008
• / Literary
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A celebrated international author, listed among the "21 top writers for the 21st century" (The Observer, U.K.)As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between his uncle Juan's ranch and his life in the village, where he reluctan...

• Sep-2012
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A brooding novel of colonial intrigue in the Congo, from the author of The Accordionist's Son and ObabakoakThe year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a p...

• Nov-2014
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Small dog. Big dreams.

From her rustic, mouse-mad cousin Angeliño to Señor Grogó's rodeo-chasing, wild Aunt Clementine from Wyoming, nobody in these four surprising stories can help agreeing with Shola in the end: leads are for losers and i...

• Apr-2015
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It is clear to Shola that she is not, in fact, a dog. People may have been trying to tell her otherwise for dog years, but a trip to her owner's library finally has her convinced: she is, in fact, descended from the Kings of the Savannah. But how wil...

• Jul-2018
• / Literary
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A seductive, unclassifiable blend of autobiography and fiction set in Reno, from the preeminent Basque authorNine months as a writer in residence can prove unnerving for anyone. For Bernardo Atxaga, newly arrived with his wife and two daughters, rese...

• Apr-2020
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One dark and stormy night, Mo hears her Inner Voice urging her to begin writing her memoirs. Having ignored her Inner Voice’s advice once before, with near-fatal consequences, she decides, this time, to do as she is told. Mo looks back on her life,...

• Aug-2022
• / Literary
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A perceptive, moving novel about life and death in the Basque Country, from the author of Nevada Days.Bernardo Atxaga’s Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of ...

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An elegiac tale of lost innocence and the ruthlessness of the natural world, where the hunter all too soon becomes the prey. As he dies leaving his two boys orphans, Paulo's father lays on him the duty to look after his retarded but overgrown you...