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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Obabakoak: Stories from a Village

Obabakoak: Stories from a Village

Atxaga, Bernardo
Costa, Margaret Jull

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Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 1555975518
ISBN13: 9781555975517
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Mar 2 2010
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, while everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. Hints of darker undercurrents mingle with moments of wry humor in this dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts, and literary theory, all held together by Bernardo Atxaga's distinctive and tenderly ironic voice. An unforgettable work from an international literary giant, whom The Observer (London) listed among the top twenty-one writers of the twenty-first century.

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