{"product_id":"obabakoak-stories-from-a-village-9781555975517","title":"Obabakoak: Stories from a Village","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny.\"--A.S. Byatt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObabakoak \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Observer \u003c\/i\u003e(London) listed among the top twenty-one writers of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555975517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2010 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/14\/2010\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bernardo Atxaga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43673008177333,"sku":"9781555975517","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_83845a82-e363-492b-8445-837488407754.jpg?v=1709052834","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/obabakoak-stories-from-a-village-9781555975517","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}