Bibliograph

Water over stones, a novel, Bernardo Atxaga ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa and Thomas Bunstead

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Water over stones, a novel, Bernardo Atxaga ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa and Thomas Bunstead

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Water over stones

Responsibility statement

Bernardo Atxaga ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa and Thomas Bunstead

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"Bernardo Atxaga's Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle's bakery, where his family hopes he will speak again. He's been silent since an incident in which he threw a stone at a teacher for reasons unknown. With the assistance of twin brothers who take him to a river in the forest, he'll recover his speech. As the years pass, those twins, now adults, will be part of a mining strike in the Ugarte region, and so take up the mantle of the narrative, just as others will after them."--Publisher's webpage

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