Obabakoak - Stories from a Village

A series of stories mostly centers life in Obaba--a remote, exotic Basque village--where a schoolboy's mining-engineer father tricks him into growing up, an unfortunate environmentalist rescues deceptively harmless lizards, a rescue mission on a Swiss mountain-climbing expedition in Nepal turns into murder and more tales. Original.

Product details

• Authors: Bernardo Atxaga
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 02.03.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9781555975517
• ISBN: 978-1-55597-551-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Fiction - General