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Obabakoak : a novel

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  • "Llibre en què es basa la pel·lícula "Obaba""
  • "În căutarea ultimului cuvânt"

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  • ""Obabakoak reúne las apasionantes historias de los habitantes del territorio de Obaba: el profesor de geografía que recuerda su extraña relación amorosa con una chica que sólo conoce por sus cartas, la joven maestra que tiene que aprender a combatir la soledad a lo largo de un frío invierno, la relación de un canónigo con un niño perdido en el bosque, el escritor que da un giro a su vida cuando descubre un detalle asombroso en la ampliación de una vieja foto de la escuela ..."--Page 4 of cover."
  • ""A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny."--A.S. ByattObabakoak 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."
  • "The story of a Basque village, Obaba."
  • "One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries, Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, whilst everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. Obabakoak is a dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory, all held together by Atxaga's distinctive and tenderly ironic voice."
  • "A unique and stunning international literary event: winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature, Obabakoak, a work of fiction, is one of only several hundred books to be written in four centuries in Basque, a language understood by few (the author himself had to translate his book into Spanish to broaden its appeal throughout Europe, where it has been published to ecstatic acclaim). Obabakoak means "the people and things of Obaba (a Basque village)," and the narrator weaves a tale reminiscent of Scheherazade's. The village is peopled with rascals, innocents, intellectuals, shepherds, hunters, idiots, and creatures of superstition, and the interconnection of their private worlds is brilliantly evoked. Parody, riddles, texts within texts abound in a book that is playful yet always tinged with melancholy. Possessed of the timelessness of the fairy tale and informed by the lore of the oral tradition - and offering a good-humored spin through metaliterature and intertextuality - Obabakoak is a multi-faceted and rousing celebration of the art of storytelling."

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  • "Errealismo magikoa"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Kontakizun laburrak"
  • "Basque literature"
  • "Nowele hiszpańskie"@pl
  • "Short stories"
  • "Opowiadanie baskijskie"@pl
  • "Relatos cortos"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Realismo mágico"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Translations"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"

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  • "Obabakoak = Les gens d'obaba"
  • "Gjensyn med obaba"
  • "Gjensyn med Obaba"
  • "Obabakoak : a novel"
  • "Obabakoak : a novel"@en
  • "Obabakoak : w poszukiwaniu ostatniego słowa"@pl
  • "Obabakoak : [stories from a village]"
  • "Obabakoak : [stories from a village]"@en
  • "Obabakoak a novel"@en
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  • "Obabakoak"
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  • "Obabakoak sau În căutarea ultimului cuvânt"

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