by Bernardo Atxaga · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420466989
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«El hijo del acordeonista» is the novel by Bernardo Atxaga, published by Alfaguara in paperback (488 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows the friendship of Joseba and David, the accordionist's son, from childhood in Obaba to adulthood, through war, violence and exile. Between the Basque Country and California, the story reconstructs personal and collective memory of the 20th century, with friendship and love as forms of salvation.
Originally written in Basque as «Soinujolearen semea», the novel was translated into Spanish by Asun Garikano and Bernardo Atxaga himself for Alfaguara's Hispánica collection.
For readers of literary fiction interested in historical memory, the civil war and Basque identity.
Bernardo Atxaga, pseudonym of Joseba Irazu Garmendia, is a Spanish Basque writer and self-translator.
