Atxaga Bernardo
Atxaga Bernardo - Water Over Stones A Novel - Paperback
Atxaga Bernardo - Water Over Stones A Novel - Paperback
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Description: A perceptive moving novel about life and death in the Basque Country from the author of Nevada Days. Bernardo Atxaga's Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle's bakery where his family hopes he will speak again. He's been silent since an incident in which he threw a stone at a teacher for reasons unknown. With the assistance of twin brothers who take him to a river in the forest he ll recover his speech. As the years pass those twins now adults will be part of a mining strike in the Ugarte region and so take up the mantle of the narrative just as others will after them. Water over Stones is similar in nature to Atxaga's earlier books Obabakoak and The Accordionist's Son as it weaves in themes of friendship nature and death. Yet in capturing a span of time from the early 1970s when the shadow of the Franco dictatorship still loomed to 2017, when these boys must learn to leave their old beliefs behind and move on Atxaga finds new richness and depth in familiar subjects. As threads of water run over stones in the river so these lives run together and over time technology and industry bring new changes as the wheel of life turns.
Title: Water Over Stones A Novel
Author(s): Atxaga Bernardo
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644450956
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/16/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A perceptive moving novel about life and death in the Basque Country from the author of Nevada Days. Bernardo Atxaga's Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle's bakery where his family hopes he will speak again. He's been silent since an incident in which he threw a stone at a teacher for reasons unknown. With the assistance of twin brothers who take him to a river in the forest he ll recover his speech. As the years pass those twins now adults will be part of a mining strike in the Ugarte region and so take up the mantle of the narrative just as others will after them. Water over Stones is similar in nature to Atxaga's earlier books Obabakoak and The Accordionist's Son as it weaves in themes of friendship nature and death. Yet in capturing a span of time from the early 1970s when the shadow of the Franco dictatorship still loomed to 2017, when these boys must learn to leave their old beliefs behind and move on Atxaga finds new richness and depth in familiar subjects. As threads of water run over stones in the river so these lives run together and over time technology and industry bring new changes as the wheel of life turns.
Title: Water Over Stones A Novel
Author(s): Atxaga Bernardo
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644450956
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/16/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
