by Bernardo Atxaga · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466316613
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«El hijo del acordeonista» is the novel by Bernardo Atxaga, published by Punto de Lectura in hardback (480 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the friendship between Joseba and David, the accordionist's son, in a story that runs from the 1930s to the end of the 20th century and moves the action from Obaba to California. Through a mosaic of times, places and styles, it addresses memory, nostalgia and violence, and presents love as the only possibility of salvation.
The work was originally published in Basque as Soinujolearen semea (2003), the year it won the Critics' Prize for Narrative in Basque. This edition belongs to the Formato Grande collection.
For readers of literary fiction and historical novels interested in the memory of the Spanish Civil War and Basque narrative.
Bernardo Atxaga, pseudonym of Joseba Irazu Garmendia, is a Spanish Basque writer and self-translator.
