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by Bernardo Atxaga


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La nueva novela de Bernardo Atxaga, Premio Nacional de las Letras Espaolas. Una historia de vidas que, como el agua, discurren entre piedras. Si se pudieran voltear los nombres impresos como las piedras de un huerto y ver la vida que esconden, comprobaramos que no hay dos seres iguales. En una panadera de Ugarte, en el Pas Vasco, un nio que un verano ha regresado sin habla de un internado en el sur de Francia recupera las palabras gracias a su amistad con dos hermanos gemelos y a algo extrao que descubren los tres en las aguas del canal que baja de la montaa. La dictadura franquista est llegando a sus ltimos das. Todo est cambiando en Ugarte y tambin en el cuartel de El Pardo donde, poco antes, Eliseo, Donato, Celso y Caloco intentan adiestrar una urraca y burlar el coto de caza reservado a los poderosos. La de ellos fue tambin una historia de amistad, con sus dosis justas de inconsciencia, rebelda y tragedia. Aos ms tarde, las huelgas alentadas por los sindicatos hacen temblar la industria minera de Ugarte. Son ya los turbulentos ochenta, y Eliseo y los gemelos se ven envueltos en una trama de venganza, urdida por el ingeniero Antoine, que parece propia del gnero negro. El tiempo pasa rpido y transforma todo lo de fuera: llega la msica, la televisin con sus realities, el correo electrnico, aunque en el interior de los protagonistas de esta historia se mantienen intactos los silencios, los secretos, las amenazas... No es ms que la vida, que discurre como hilos de agua entre las piedras. Pero avanza. Con esta novela emocionante, vertebrada por la amistad, el amor a la naturaleza y la inminencia de la muerte, Atxaga vuelve a mostrarse como un maestro en la creacin de territorios y personajes imposibles de olvidar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This is the National Prize for Spanish Letters, Bernardo Atxaga's, new novel.
It is a story of many lives that, just like water, run through stones. In Ugarte, Basque Country, a boy who returned from a boarding school in the south of France without being able to speak, one summer recovers his ability to speak thanks to his friendship with two twin brothers and also thanks to something strange that the three discovered in the waters of a canal that comes down from a mountain. The Franco dictatorship is reaching its last days. Everything is changing in Ugarte and also in the El Pardo military base where Eliseo, Donato, Celso, and Caloco tried to train a magpie as they trespassed the hunting field reserved for the powerful. Theirs was also a story of friendship with its fair dose of rebellion, tragedy, and being reckless. Years later, union strikes shook Ugarte's mining industry. It is now the turbulent eighties, and Eliseo and the twins are involved in a plot of revenge that seems to be typical of a black genre thriller. Time goes by quickly and transforms everything that comes from abroad: new type of music arrives, television, and email. With this exciting novel held together by friendship, love of nature, and the immensity of death, Atxaga once again shows his mastery in creating territories and characters that are impossible to forget.

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  • Title Casas Y Tumbas / Houses and Graves
  • Author Bernardo Atxaga
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 365
  • Volumes 1
  • Language SPA
  • Publisher Alfaguara
  • ISBN 9788420419374 / 8420419370
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 14.99 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Bakeries, Revolutions
  • Dewey Decimal Code 899.92

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Bernardo Atxaga (Asteasu, Gipuzkoa, 1951) es considerado el mximo exponente de la narrativa vasca y uno de los creadores de mayor hondura y originalidad en el panorama literario espaol. Su labor literaria se consagr con el libro Obabakoak (1988), Premio Nacional de Narrativa en 1989 y llevado al cine por Montxo Armendriz como Obaba (2005). Fue galardonada tambin con el Premio de la Crtica, el Premio Euskadi, y el Premio Millepages de Pars, y qued finalista en el European Literary Award. A Obabakoak le siguieron novelas como El hombre solo (1994), Premio Nacional de la Crtica de narrativa en euskera, Esos cielos (1996), El hijo del acordeonista (2003), Premio de la Crtica 2003, premio Grinzane Cavour en 2008, y adaptada al teatro bajo la direccin de Fernando Bernus; Siete casas en Francia (2009), finalista en el Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012, finalista en el Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012; y Das de Nevada (2014), Premio Euskadi 2014. En 2017 obtuvo el Premio Internacional LiberPress Literatura por el conjunto de toda su obra literaria. Tambin es autor de libros de poesa. Su obra ha sido traducida a treinta y dos lenguas. Es miembro de la Academia Vasca.
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