by Fernando Aramburu · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483835463
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«Los peces de la amargura» is a collection of short stories by Fernando Aramburu, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Stories about ETA violence and its effects on Basque society, seen through the daily lives of victims: a father who tends fish while his daughter is hospitalized, or a couple who wish a harassed neighbor would leave. Tales told as chronicles, letters, or testimonies that convey pain, denunciation, and homage.
Volume 18 of the Maxi collection. It received the Mario Vargas Llosa NH Short Story Prize (2006) and the Royal Spanish Academy Prize (2008).
For readers interested in contemporary Spanish narrative and stories about the Basque conflict and its victims.
Basque novelist based in Germany, author of Homeland, a major literary phenomenon about ETA terrorism and Basque society.
