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Nevada Days by Bernardo Atxaga
Category: Fiction
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, �ngela, who is also doing research there, and by their two daughters. During their first few weeks, the family encounte ...Show more
Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga
Category: Fiction
1903, and Captain Lalande Biran, overseeing a garrison on the banks of the Congo, has an ambition: to amass a fortune and return to the literary cafes of Paris. His glamorous wife Christine has a further ambition: to own seven houses in France, a house for every year he has been abroad. At the Captain's ...Show more
Shola and the Lions by Bernardo Atxaga
Category: Children's | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
"So..." Shola wagged her tail doubtfully, "if I'm a lion, why does Grogoinsist on calling me a mere mutt?" Shola is sure that her noble nature and ambitions of grandeur mean only one thing - that she is, in fact, not a dog but a lioness. To the bemusement of her long-suffering owner, Senor Grogo, she s ...Show more
The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga
Category: Fiction
Taking us from 1936 to 1999, The Accordionists Son is a beautiful and gripping tale of a town, a family, an incredible friendship and a people whose culture is slowly dying.David Imaz has spent many years living in exile on a ranch in California, far from his native Basque Country. Nearing fifty and in ...Show more
The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga
Category: Middle Readers
Winner of the 2014 Marsh Award for Children's Literature Shola is a little dog with attitude. Frustratingly for her, she loves both comfort (mainly in the form of food) and adventure (in theory, at least), and spends much of her time trying to decide between the two. Whether she is faced with the possi ...Show more
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