The Guardian incluye "Obabakoak" de Bernardo Atxaga en su lista de "10 of the best novels set in Spain"

El escritor y periodista Stephen Burgen ha publicado un artículo donde recomienda 10 de las mejores novelas ambientadas en España. En esa selección ha incluído Obabakoak (1988) de Bernardo Atxaga, junto a Don Quijote de Cervantes o The Sun Also Rises de Hemingway.

Algunos de los otros autores que cita en la lista están Javier Cercas, Eduardo Mendoza y Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, entre otros.

He aquí el comentario del autor sobre Obabakoak:

Originally written in Euskera - the Basque language - and a huge success in Spanish, Obabakoak is a series of stories narrated by the inhabitants of Obaba, a Basque village. A geography teacher discovers that a series of life-changing letters from a young woman in Hamburg were in fact written by his father; a tattered and barely legible manuscript written by a priest tells the story of an unloved, illegitimate boy who went missing in the woods and returned to haunt the village as a pure white boar. Atxaga's writing is intimate and there is always a touch of humour, even as the tales shade into darkness.