Description
"Atxaga knows how to entertain, move, and bestow autobiographies with the charm of fiction." --J. A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia
Two brothers face collective evil together; one man relives the death of his friend's son in the light of LSD; at the cemetery in Obaba-Ugarte, two speakers give a delirious talk about life and death before a congregated crowd; an owl turns out to be an essential clue to solving several crimes. In From the Other Side, which seems narrated by voices surging from nature itself, we hear the best Atxaga, the author that thrills his readers since the publication of Obabakoak and until today--the writer that portrays life and death as two sides of the same thing, the chain of affections that unites us all together, the sensitivity of animals, the violence, the evilness, the loss, and the loneliness of human beings. In the tales collected in this book there is a unique story, our story, the story of all of us who have been, are, and will be. And next to life, in them there is also a place for fantasy, that which happens in the fuzzy margins between dream and reality, between hallucination and revelation.
Author: Bernardo Atxaga
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: 07/19/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.40h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9788420461304
ISBN10: 842046130X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Spain | 21st Century
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Bernardo Atxaga (Asteasu, Gipuzkoa, 1951) es considerado el máximo exponente de la narrativa vasca y uno de los creadores de mayor hondura y originalidad en el panorama literario español. Se consagró con el libro Obabakoak (1988), Premio Nacional de Narrativa en 1989 y llevado al cine por Montxo Armendáriz como Obaba (2005). A este le siguieron novelas como El hombre solo (1994), Premio Nacional de la Crítica de narrativa en euskera, Esos cielos (1996), El hijo del acordeonista (2003), Premio de la Crítica 2003, premio Grinzane Cavour en 2008, y adaptada al teatro y al cine bajo la dirección de Fernando Bernués; Siete casas en Francia (2009), finalista en el Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012, finalista en el Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012; Días de Nevada (2014), Premio Euskadi, y Casas y tumbas (2020). En 2017 obtuvo el Premio Internacional LiberPress Literatura, en 2019 el Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas y en 2021 el Premio Liber, los tres por el conjunto de su obra. También es autor de poesía. Sus libros han sido traducidos a treinta y dos lenguas. Es miembro de la Academia Vasca.