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      A Cup of Tea in Pamplona

      by Robert Laxalt
      Published
      Oct 2013
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      96
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      In this slim tale, Laxalt shows the ugly, desperate, and sometimes violent world of the contrabandiers, Basque smugglers in the Pyrenees. Set in the 1960s, the terse story begins with Nikolas, driven by his family’s financial despair, taking on work from Gregorio, the patrón of a small team of smugglers. Nikolas must smuggle fifty horses over the mountain ridges between France and Spain. If he’s caught, jail and ruin are certain; death is possible. This engrossing novella, told with tight narration and compelling dialogue, shows the grinding poverty and ethnic tensions in Basque lands, fifty years ago. 

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      First Edition Oct 2013 University of Nevada Press ISBN13 9780874171921 ISBN10 087417192X
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      Dec 1985 University of Nevada Press ISBN13 9780874170955 ISBN10 0874170958
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