Obabakoak Av Bernardo Atxaga

<p>One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries, <i>Obabakoak</i> is a shimmering, mercurial novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. <br><br>Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, whilst everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page.<br><br><i>Obabakoak</i> is a dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory, all held together by Atxaga''s distinctive and tenderly ironic voice.</p>