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Obabakoak
Bernardo Atxaga
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Description for Obabakoak
Paperback. 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. This is a novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
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. Obabakoak is a dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory, all held together by Atxaga's distinctive and tenderly ironic voice.
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. Obabakoak is a dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory, all held together by Atxaga's distinctive and tenderly ironic voice.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
242g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099512998
SKU
V9780099512998
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About Bernardo Atxaga
Bernardo Atxaga was born in Gipuzkoa in Spain in 1951 and lives in the Basque Country, writing in Basque and Spanish. He is a prizewinning novelist and poet, whose books, including The Accordionist's Son and Seven Houses in France, have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages.
Reviews for Obabakoak
A fine, shimmering, mercurial novel
Observer
A brilliantly inventive writer...He understands the nature of story telling and is at once terribly moving and wildly funny
A. S. Byatt An impressive intellectual achievement
New Statesman
Atxaga holds the attention by his sheer craft, by the complete control he exhibits ... Read more
Observer
A brilliantly inventive writer...He understands the nature of story telling and is at once terribly moving and wildly funny
A. S. Byatt An impressive intellectual achievement
New Statesman
Atxaga holds the attention by his sheer craft, by the complete control he exhibits ... Read more