Obabakoak

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<p>One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries,<i>Obabakoak</i>is a shimmering, mercurial novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village.</p><p>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.</p><p><i>Obabakoak</i>is a dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory, all held together by Atxaga's distinctive and tenderly ironic voice.</p>

Autorenportrait

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<i></i><i>The Accordionist's Son</i>and<i>Seven Houses in France</i>, have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages.

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