Water over Stones

From prize-winning author Bernardo Atxaga, author of Obabakoak and Nevada Days, comes a polyphonic novel following the fortunes and failures of the inhabitants of a small Basque mining town over the course of forty years

About the author

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 Obabakoak (1992), The Accordionist's Son (2007) and Nevada Days (2017), have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad. In 2019 he was awarded the National Prize for Spanish Letters. His works have been translated into thirty-two languages.

Summary

From prize-winning author Bernardo Atxaga, author of Obabakoak and Nevada Days, comes a polyphonic novel following the fortunes and failures of the inhabitants of a small Basque mining town over the course of forty years

Foreword

From prize-winning author Bernardo Atxaga, author of Obabakoak and Nevada Days, comes a polyphonic novel following the fortunes and failures of the inhabitants of a small Basque mining town over the course of forty years

Additional text

Atxaga knows how to entertain, move and give autobiography all the charm of fiction

Product details

• Authors: Bernardo Atxaga, Atxaga Bernardo
• Assisted by: Thomas Bunstead (Translation), Tom Bunstead (Translation), Bunstead Thomas (Translation), Margaret Jull Costa (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781529410044
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1004-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 214 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Spain, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Modern and contemporary fiction, HISTORY / Europe / Spain