Obabakoak

by Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Bernardo Atxaga (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Bernardo Atxaga (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.50

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $17.38

  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.