Second edition of "Seven Houses in France" released in the UK

The first English-language edition of Seven Houses in France* was published exactly a year ago in the UK by Harvill Secker.

Atxaga's latest novel, set in the Congo at the beginning of the 20th century, has been very well received by the British and American reading public. In the UK the novel made the short list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and in the US Publishers Weekly listed it as one of the year's best novels.

On the year anniversary of its publication in the UK, the 2nd edition has been released in paperback. The Guardian newspaper's print edition used the occasion to highlight the work of writer Bernardo Atxaga and translator Margaret Jull Costa.

More positive reviews out of the United States

The novel was published in the US in September of this year, and it continues to receive praise and positive reviews.

The latest review comes from the Historical Novel Society, where Atxaga and his body of work have been labeled as formidable:

Atxaga, a prizewinning novelist whose work has been translated into 22 languages, is a formidable writer. This novel gives us historical fiction that provides not just events but cause and effect. Landscape, culture and life itself become part of a monstrous machine that destroys much more than it provides, including the humanity of the participants. This is as important a piece of political writing as I have ever read.