by Kirmen Uribe · Susa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492468430
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Mussche is a novel by writer Kirmen Uribe, published in 2012. The story takes place in 1937, when thousands of Basque children are evacuated from the port of Santurtzi into exile after the bombing of Gernika. Among them is Karmentxu, an eight-year-old girl who is taken in Ghent, Belgium, by the Flemish writer Robert Mussche. The arrival of Karmentxu transforms the solitary life of Mussche and his family, triggering a series of events that intertwine with the Spanish Civil War and World War II, culminating in an unexpected ending.
Kirmen Uribe is a Basque-born New York-based award-winning writer whose work transcends borders, weaving together personal and collective histories. Through poetry and fiction, he explores themes of identity, migration, and memory, and reinvents the form. His debut novel, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao, won National Prize for Literature in Spain. His works have been translated into over twenty languages. Uribe's poetry has appeared in journals including The New Yorker and The Paris Review. In 2018, he received the New York Public Library Cullman Center Writing Fellowship. He now lives in New York City with his family, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University (NYU).
