by Kirmen Uribe · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432229770
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«La hora de despertarnos juntos» is the historical novel by Kirmen Uribe, published by Seix Barral in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Karmele Urresti stays in Ondarroa during the civil war to treat the wounded and free her imprisoned father. Exiled in France, she meets musician Txomin Letamendi and they flee together to Venezuela; World War II brings them back to Europe, and Txomin collaborates with the Basque secret services against the Nazis.
Biblioteca Breve collection. Translated from Basque by José María Isasi Urdangarín; original title: Elkarrekin Esnatzeko Ordua. Winner of the Critics' Prize for Narrative in Basque (2016).
For those seeking historical novels about the Spanish Civil War, exile, and World War II.
Kirmen Uribe is a Basque-born New York-based award-winning writer whose work transcends borders, weaving together personal and collective histories. Through poetry and fiction, he explores themes of identity, migration, and memory, and reinvents the form. His debut novel, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao, won National Prize for Literature in Spain. His works have been translated into over twenty languages. Uribe's poetry has appeared in journals including The New Yorker and The Paris Review. In 2018, he received the New York Public Library Cullman Center Writing Fellowship. He now lives in New York City with his family, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University (NYU).
