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Overview

Obabakoak reúne las apasionantes historias de los habitantes del territorio de Obaba: el profesor de geografía que recuerda su extraña relación amorosa con una chica que sólo conoce por sus cartas, la joven maestra que tiene que aprender a combatir la soledad a lo largo de un frío invierno, la relación de un canónigo con un niño perdido en el bosque, el escritor que da un giro a su vida cuando descubre un detalle asombroso en la ampliación de una vieja foto de la escuela...
Bernardo Atxaga hila con maestría todas estas historias para celebrar el poder de la palabra: las viejas cartas donde se consignan los secretos y las confesiones más íntimas, los recuerdos, los libros que nos llevan a otros lugares y que nos tienden una mano para rescatarnos de la soledad.

This shimmering, unpredictable novel--possessed of the timelessness of a fairy tale and informed by the lore of the oral tradition--tells of life in a remote, exotic Basque village. Now available in paperback, this highly-acclaimed book is a playful and ingenious gathering of interwoven stories. "At once terribly moving and wildly funny."--A.S. Byatt.

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Publishers Weekly
This loosely structured novel centered on a remote Basque village portrays life as a perilous journey in which chance and free will intervene in equal measures. An unobtrusively dazzling collage of seemingly unrelated stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory, all held together by Atxaga's distinctive, tenderly ironic voice, it won Spain's National Prize for Literature. The Basque novelist and poet peoples the town of Obaba and its environs with a lovelorn schoolmistress, a cultured but self-hating dwarf, a schoolboy whose mining engineer father tricks him into growing up and an environmentalist who rescues lizards after playing wicked tricks with them as a youth. Atxaga also spins tales of a German painter driven mad by guilt over his romance with an Arab woman; of an Irish woman in search of her doctor husband who is missing in the Amazon jungle; and of a rescue mission on a Swiss mountain climbing expedition in Nepal that turns to murder. (Apr.)
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In the prolog to this novel, Atxaga explains the intricacies of his native culture: ``I write in a strange language. Its verbs, the structure of its relative clauses, have no sisters anywhere on Earth.'' Translated into English from the author's own Spanish translation of the original text written in Basque, the work has everything to do with the language of a people and culture living on the fringes of society. Like the single-laned, rutted, dirt roads that link the sparsely populated villages in the fictitious region of Obaba, Atxaga (a la Gabriel Garcia Marquez) has compiled a series of independent and interrelated stories that introduce the reader to a cross-section of Obaban society. Through the eyes of these numerous protagonists, who can vary from chapter to chapter, Atxaga reviews and foreshadows the paralyzing effect superstition and myth-making can have on the individual and society. He both respects and fears the inherent introversion of his people--so ably reflected in a language spoken by only a handful of human beings. Obabakoak , winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature, is a tribute to the Basque people's language and culture.-- David H. Miller, New York

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9788466320924
  • Publisher: Santillana USA Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 4/30/2008
  • Edition description: Spanish-language Edition
  • Pages: 442
  • Sales rank: 671,988
  • Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura) Ser.
  • Product dimensions: 4.90 (w) x 7.40 (h) x 1.10 (d)
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