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Obabakoak: Stories from a Village

By Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
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By Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
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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. Byatt

Obabakoak 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 a...

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