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Water over stones : a novel / Bernardo Atxaga ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa and Thomas Bunstead.

Atxaga, Bernardo, (author.). Costa, Margaret Jull, (translator.). Bunstead, Thomas, (translator.).

Summary:
"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."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781644450956
  • ISBN: 164445095X
  • Physical Description: 381 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in the Basque language as Etxeak eta hilobiak by Pamiela in 2019; First published in English in Great Britain by MacLehose Press, London."--Title page verso
Language Note:
Translated from the Spanish translation of the Basque.
Subject: Mute persons > Fiction.
Brothers > Fiction.
Strikes and lockouts > Fiction.
Twins > Fiction.
País Vasco (Spain) > Fiction.
Genre: Novels.
Fiction.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Martin Library Adults ATX Fiction (Text) 33454005913710 Reading Room Balcony Available -
Easton Main Library ATXAGA (Text) 31901004642478 Adult Fiction Available -


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