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By: Bernardo Atxaga

ISBN: 9780099597735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Two Basque gunmen on the run after a bomb attack find refuge in a hotel whose owner, Carlos, used to belong to their movement. With the World Cup in progress, the Polish football team is staying in the hotel. A television crew is infiltrated by undercover agents.


(Paperback)

By: Bernardo Atxaga

ISBN: 9780099512998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Obabakoak means 'events that happened in Obaba', the village at the centre of a novel composed of 26 inked tales and parodies written with a delicate sense of childlike innocence. But underlying these stories is a darker theme of loss, as the narrator of the book becomes a victim of his own tales.


(Paperback)

By: Bernardo Atxaga

ISBN: 9780099492771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As a young man, David divides his time between his uncle's ranch and his life in the village, where he reluctantly practices the accordion on the insistence of his authoritarian father. This title explores the life of David Imaz, a former inhabitant of the Basque village of Obaba, now living in exile and ill-health on a ranch in California.


(Paperback)

By: Bernardo Atxaga

ISBN: 9781846555602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Irene is 37 years old and just out of prison after serving time for terrorist activities. Deciding to return home to Bilbao, she takes a bus journey across Spain, striking up conversations with the passengers who include two plainclothes policemen. As the journey progresses, so the tension builds.


(Paperback)

By: Bernardo Atxaga

ISBN: 9780099552253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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1903, and Captain Lalande Biran, overseeing a garrison on the banks of the Congo, has an ambition: to amass a fortune and return to the literary cafs of Paris.


(Paperback)

By: Bernardo Atxaga

ISBN: 9781529410044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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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