by Fernando Aramburu · Maxi-Tusquets · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788483837498
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In the late sixties, an eight-year-old boy moves to San Sebastián to live with his uncles. There, he witnesses the daily life of his family and the neighborhood. His uncle Vicente, of weak character, divides his time between the factory and the tavern, while his aunt Maripuy, a woman of strong personality but subjected to the social and religious conventions of the time, is the one who really runs the family. His cousin Mari Nieves lives obsessed with boys, and his surly and taciturn cousin Julen is indoctrinated by the parish priest to join an incipient ETA. The destiny of all of them, secondary characters in History, will suffer a setback years later. Años lentos offers a reflection on how life is transformed into a novel and how sentimental memory becomes collective memory, while its writing reveals a murky background of guilt in the recent history of the Basque Country.
Basque novelist based in Germany, author of Homeland, a major literary phenomenon about ETA terrorism and Basque society.
