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“bernardo atxaga”

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  • Obabakoak

    Stories from a Village

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    "A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny."—A.S. ByattObabakoak 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Accordionist's Son

    A Novel

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    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 reluctantly practices the accordion, a tradition that his authoritarian father insists he continue, he becomes increasingly aware of the long shadow cast by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Obabakoak

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    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 intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, whilst everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Two Brothers

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    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 younger brother, for otherwise Daniel will be put away in an institution. But Daniel never listens to his brother, who is unable to exert any authority over ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Memoirs of a Basque Cow

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    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, beginning with the crucial moment when she met another cow, who introduced herself as La Vache qui Rit, and assured Mo that there was nothing more ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Lone Woman

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    Irene is 37 years old and just out of prison after serving time for terrorist activities. Deciding to return home to Bilbao, she takes a bus journey across Spain, striking up conversations with the passengers who include two plainclothes policemen. As the journey progresses, so the tension builds. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Nevada Days

    A Novel

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    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, research at the Center for Basque Studies in Reno, Nevada, is anything but straightforward. The neon lights and harsh, windswept desert appear full of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Water over Stones

    A Novel

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    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 a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle’s bakery, where his family hopes he will speak again. He’s been silent since ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Seven Houses in France

    A Novel

    by Bernardo Atxaga ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    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 poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return to the literary cafés of Paris. His glamorous wife, Christine, has a further ambition: to own ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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