by Kirmen Uribe · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432215476
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
In May 1937, after the bombing of Guernica, thousands of Basque children went into exile from the port of Bilbao. Among them, Karmentxu, an eight-year-old girl, was welcomed in Ghent, Belgium, by the writer Robert Mussche. Robert's life will change with the arrival of the girl, his involvement in the resistance during the Civil War and the advent of World War II. This novel, heir to Sostiene Pereira de Tabucchi or The Last Meeting of Sándor Márai, is the story that the author himself tells his best friend, recently deceased, about an anonymous hero. A story of friendship, love, commitment and loyalty, which explores the irreversibility of the decisions that mark a life.
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).
