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OBABAKOAK

Published
Apr 1993
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General Fiction General Fiction
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344

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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.

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Aug 1994 Vintage ISBN 0679749586
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First Edition Apr 1993 Pantheon (UK) ISBN 0679424040
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