Obabakoak: Stories from a Village
"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...
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"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 Swiss mountain-climbing expedition in Nepal turns into murder. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, while everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. Hints of darker undercurrents mingle with moments of wry humor in this dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts, and literary theory, all held together by Bernardo Atxaga’s distinctive and tenderly ironic voice. An unforgettable work from an international literary giant, whom The Observer (London) listed among the top twenty-one writers of the twenty-first century.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781555975517 (1555975518)
Publish date: March 2nd 2010
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
0099512998 (ISBN13: 9780099512998)Withdrawn from Tower Hamlets LibraryTranslated by Margaret Jull CostaTranslator's NoteThe Game of GoosePrologue (The author speaks of his language, euskera)A collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory melded together that I have hauled aroun...