Obabakoak

Year: 1988
ISBN: 978-8475682181
Pages: 402
Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic Basque village. A schoolboy's mining engineer 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, whilst 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 Atxaga's distinctive and tenderly ironic voice. An unforgettable work from an international literary giant, whom the Observer (London) listed among the top twenty-one writers for the twenty-first century.
Translated to 27 languages, all over the world.
"A fine, shimmering, mercurial novel" - The Observer (London)
"A classic of Basque fiction. . . . The book exudes its own charmingly Old World ambiance distinct from the raw youthful frontier stylings of Garcia Marquez and others from that hemisphere. ... Atxaga is heir to Kafka and E.T.A. Hoffmannm, proudly embracing his European blood." - The Barnes & Noble Review
"A brilliantly inventive writer... He understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildly funny." - A.S. Byatt
Other editions

Obabakoak
Erein (Euskara)

Obabakoak
Erein
(Euskara)
- 1997
ISBN:
978-84-7568-824-4
Pages:
396

Obabakoak
Dituria
(Albania)
- 1996

Obabakoak
Editoria del Norte
(Asturianu)
- 1995

Obabakoak
Ediciones B (Colección Tiempos Modernos)
(Castellano)
- 1989
Pages:
380

Obabakoak
Círculo de Lectores
(Castellano)
- 1990

Obabakoak
Ediciones B (Colección VIB)
(Castellano)
- 1993

Obabakoak
Ediciones B (Colección Tiempos Modernos)
(Castellano)
- 1994

Obabakoak
Ediciones B (Colección BDB)
(Castellano)
- 1995

Obabakoak
Ediciones B (Colección Ficcionario)
(Castellano)
- 1997

Obabakoak
Punto de lectura
(Castellano)
- 2000

Obabakoak
Byblos
(Castellano)
- 2005
Pages:
496

Obabakoak (DVD)
Manga Films
(Castellano)
- 2005

Obabakoak
Ediciones B (Colección Línea d'ombra)
(Catalá)
- 1990

Obabakoak
La Magrana
(Catalá)
- 1999

Obabakoak
Edicions 62
(Catalá)
- 2005

Obabakoak
Cuba (Cuba)

Obabakoak
Schönbach Verlag
(Deutschland)
- 1991

Obabakoak
Unionsverlag
(Deutschland)
- 1995

Obabakoak
Christian Bourgois Editeur
(France)
- 1991

Obabakoak
Faktoria K de libros
(Galego)
- 2008
ISBN:
978-84-96957-36-7
Pages:
416
Translation:
Ramón Nicolás

Ομπαμπακοακ
Editions Ekkremés
(Hellas)
- 1993

Obabakoak
Demetra
(Hrvatska)
- 2001

(Obabakoak)
Zmora Bitan Publishers
(Israel)
- 2003

Obabakoak
Giulio Einaudi Editore
(Italia)
- 1991

Obabakoak
Nijgh & Van Ditmar
(Nederland)
- 1992

Obabakoak
Chuokoron-Shinsha Inc.
(Nippon)
- 2004

Gkensyn med Obaba
Gyldendal Norsk Förlag
(Norge)
- 1994

Obabakoak: W poszukiwaniu ostatniego slowa
Oficyna Literacka
(Polska)
- 1992

Obabakoak
Quetzal Editores
(Portugal)
- 1992

Obabakoak
Libra Universalia
(Romania)
- 2009
Translation:
Aurel Covaci

(Obabakoak)
Inostrannaya Literatura
(Russia)
- 2004

pend
Gernika-Mosku
(Russia)
- pend

Obabakoak
Tammi Publishers
(Suomi)
- 1994

Obabakoak
Albert Bonniers Förlag
(Sverige)
- 1994

(Obabakoak)
Dar Altaliaa Al-Jadidah
(Syria)
- 1999

Obabakoak
Dost Kitabevi
(Turkey)
- 2001

Obabakoak
Hutchinson
(UK)
- 1992

Obabakoak
Vintage
(UK)
- 1993

Obabakoak
Vintage
(UK)
- 2007

Obabakoak
Pantheon Books
(USA)
- 1993

Obabakoak
Vintage
(USA)
- 1994

Obabakoak
Alfaguara
(España)
- 2019
ISBN:
9788420454368
Pages:
400

Obabakoak
21 lettere
(Italia)
- 2020
ISBN:
9788831441070

Obabakoak
Iran
(Farsi)
- 2020
Translation:
Alireza Shafiee-Nasab

Obabakoak
Xordica
(Aragonés)
- 2022
ISBN:
978-84-16461-43-1
Pages:
456
Translation:
Chusep Raúl Usón

Obabakoak
Navona
(Català)
- 2023
ISBN:
978-84-19311-28-3
Pages:
408
Translation:
Marta Hernández Pibernat

Zivot u Obabi
Treci Trg
(Serbiera)
- 2022
ISBN:
978-86-6407-210-6
Pages:
430
Translation:
Biljana Isailovic

Obabakoak
(Friuliera)
- 1999
Translation:
Renzo Ciutto