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Obabakoak reune las apasionantes historias de los habitantes del territorio de Obaba: el profesor de geografia que recuerda su extrana relacion amorosa con una chica que solo conoce en sus cartas, la joven maestra que tiene que aprender a combatir la soledad a lo largo de un frio invierno, la relacion de un canonigo con un nino perdido en el bosque, el escritor que da un giro a su vida cuando descubre un detalle asombroso en la ampliacion de una vieja foto de la escuela... Bernardo Atxaga hila con maestria todas estas historias, y las que nos cuentan sus personajes, para celebrar el poder de la palabra: las viejas cartas donde se consignan…

"A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny."—A.S. Byatt Obabakoak is 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…

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.

"Obabakoak" liburua urte askoren emaitza da. Ipuingintzaren tradizio luze eta zabalaren sintesia lortzen du "Obabakoak"ek, Poe-rengandik XX. mendeko azken ipuinlarien lanetaraino: Maupassant, Txekhov, Villiers de L?Isle-Adam, Schowb, eta gertuagoko Waugh, Quiroga, Rulfo, Cortázar, Borges, Singer, Ipar Amerikako ipuin tradizioa, eta abar... Ahozko tradiziotik Joxe Arratibelen "Kontu zaharrak" eta "Auspoa" saila. XII. mendetik Europa liluratu duen Arabiako tradizio paregabea: "Mila gau eta bat gehiago", Txinatik heldutako "Marco Poloren bidaia" fantasiatuak, eta abar. Azken batean, literatura oso baten hausnarketa eta sintesi bat eskaintzen…