“Nahiz eta nik neure bihotza zabaldu, ba dakit hori ez dela nahikoa; konprenitzen dut urrun dauden bihotz eta gorputzen maitasuna antzua dela, gezurra dela, amodiozko gutunak faltsuak diren bezala. Konprenitzen dut ez dela posible elkar inguratze espiritualik inguratze fisikorik ez…

The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the River Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return to…

Irene is thirty-seven years old and just out of prison after a four-year sentence for terrorist involvement. On her first night of freedom, she wanders from bar to bar, picks up a stranger, and spends the night with him in…

Sugeak txoriari begiratzen dionean, txoria itsutu egiten da, eta ordurarte begien bistan eduki duen munduaren zati laburra -zuhaitz batzuk, bizpahiru teilatu, bidea, zeruaren urdina- ezkutatu egiten zaio bat-batean. Barraketako magoen paineluekin gertatzen den bezala, une batez hantxe dauka guztia: koloreak,…

As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between his uncle Juan’s ranch and his life in the village, where he reluctantly practices the accordion, a tradition that his authoritarian father insists he continue, he becomes increasingly…

El antiguo marinero bilbaíno Martín Saldías se convierte en espía para servir los intereses de don Carlos durante la primera guerra carlista. Tiene que llevar un mensaje que contiene una información muy importante para el desarrollo de la guerra. En…

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…

Nevada Days is a fictionalised account of Atxaga’s nine months’ stay as writer-in-residence at the Centre for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada. He is accompanied by his wife, Ángela, who is also doing research there, and by their…

The lizard trail Do you want to come on a walk with us around the world of Obaba? Come and explore both Bernardo Atxaga?s literary works and the beautiful town of Asteasu. Fiction and reality, all rolled into one. Welcome…