Bernardo Atxaga
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Bernardo Atxaga's Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle's bakery, where his family hopes he will speak again. He's been silent since an incident in which he threw a stone at a teacher for reasons unknown. With the assistance of twin brothers who take him to a river in the forest, he'll...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2011
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the River Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return to the literary cafes of Paris. His glamorous wife Christine has a further ambition: to own seven houses in France, a house for every year he has been abroad. At Lalande Biran's side are the ex-legionnaire van Thiegel, a brutal womaniser, and the servile,...
