Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Fernando Aramburu is one of the most outstanding of current writers in Spanish. His numerous novels and books of short stories have been widely praised. But it is his novel Patria (Homeland), acclaimed by critics and a stunning success among readers in Spain and across Europe, that has gained him the widest international readership. Homeland has been awarded numerous prizes, including the National Prize for Literature and the National Critics Prize in Spain and the Strega Europeo Prize and the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa International Literary Prize in Italy.
He currently lives in Germany, where he has worked as a Spanish teacher since 1985. Homeland is his first book to be translated into English.
Few books make me cry these days but <b>by the final page I found my eyes prickling with tears</b>. By examining his society in such close detail, Aramburu encourages us to reflect on the bitter divisions in our own world and the opportunities we have for reconciliation.
Sunday Times
Itâs been a long time since Iâve read a book that was <b>so persuasive and moving, so intelligently conceived</b>.
- Mario Vargas Llosa,
<b>Is Aramburu the Tolstoy of the Basque country</b>, author of a Spanish language <i>War and Peace</i> that lays bare the pain of forty pointless years of separatist terrorism?
Guardian
<b>A powerful novel which has a strong claim to be the definite fictional account of the Basque troubles</b> . . . Aramburu skillfully spins their stories in short, punchy chapters that dart back and forth in time. Its message is ultimately redemptive.
Economist
A magnificent novel which is becoming <b>a publishing, political and literary phenomenon</b>. A story imbued with a spine-tingling sense of realism.
Vanguardia
<i>Homeland</i> is, above all, <b>a great and considered novel</b> . . . combing evocation and analysis . . . <i>War and Peace</i> by Tolstoy did it. The work of Fernando Aramburu achieves the same thing.
El PaĂs
<i>Homeland</i> is a sweeping novel that explores so many aspects of life . . . Aramburu brings [ethnic nationalism] under the microscope to show its effects on a few individuals. The results are <b>brilliant and unnerving</b>.
Herald
Phenomenal . . . [Aramaburu is as] magnanimous as he is passionate.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
<b>A work of tremendous power</b> . . . [One is] reminded how overwhelming and powerful literature can be.
Die Zeit
An event: <b>Aramburu masterfully manages to tell of great things in small ways</b>.
Stern
Shedding the occasional tear doesnât matter. <b>It is in any case difficult to read <i>Homeland </i>and remain dry-eyed</b>.
Corriere della Sera
<b>Gripping </b>. . . A palpable hit.
Spiegel
<b>Worth every page</b>.
Vogue (Germany)
<b>As humorous as it is heartbreaking</b>, <i>Homeland </i>explores how various factions of Basque and Spanish society were violently pitted against one another for fifty years.
Millions
Aramburu recounts the lives of ordinary people shattered by events that are ongoing in Spain today even years after ETA has suspended its armed campaign . . . <b>A humane, memorable work of literature</b>.
Kirkus (starred review)
<b>A brilliant and important book</b>. Our planet is covered with lines of various kind, and Aramburu masterfully examines the bodies and souls those lines cut through like razors.
Nadeem Aslam
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Fernando Aramburu is one of the most outstanding of current writers in Spanish. His numerous novels and books of short stories have been widely praised. But it is his novel Patria (Homeland), acclaimed by critics and a stunning success among readers in Spain and across Europe, that has gained him the widest international readership. Homeland has been awarded numerous prizes, including the National Prize for Literature and the National Critics Prize in Spain and the Strega Europeo Prize and the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa International Literary Prize in Italy.
He currently lives in Germany, where he has worked as a Spanish teacher since 1985. Homeland is his first book to be translated into English.