HOMELAND IN THE CLUB

Homeland, Fernando Aramburu, reading is chosen for the session of February of the Reading Club Santa Eulària des Riu. Critics Award 2016 narrative, is a story about more than 30 years of life in Euskadi under terrorism.

The day that ETA announces the abandonment of weapons, Bittori goes to the cemetery to tell the tomb of her husband Txato, killed by terrorists, who has decided to return to the house where they lived. Will she be able to live with those who harassed her before and after the attack that disrupted her life and that of her family? Can she find out who was the hooded man who killed her husband one rainy day?, when he returned from his transport company? As much as it comes secretly, Bittori's presence will alter the false tranquility of the town, especially from your neighbor Look, intimate friend in another time, and mother of Joxe Mari, an imprisoned terrorist suspected of Bittori's worst fears. What happened between those two women? What has poisoned the lives of your children and your close-knit husbands in the past? With his sneaky tears and unshakable convictions, with his wounds and his bravery, the incandescent story of their lives before and after the crater that was the death of Txato, speaks of the impossibility of forgetting and the need for forgiveness in a community broken by political fanaticism.

The author

Fernando Aramburu (Saint Sebastian, 1959) is considered one of the most prominent storytellers in Spanish language. Among his works stand outThe fish of bitterness (2006, XI Mario Vargas Llosa NH Award, IV Dulce Chacón Award and Royal Academy Award Spanish 2008), Empty eyes (2000, Prize Euskadi), Slow years (2012, VII Tusquets Novel Editors Award and Madrid Booksellers Award) yAvid claims (Prize Short Library 2014). But it was his novelHomeland, of overwhelming success among readers and deserving of unanimous recognition (National Narrative Award, Award of Criticism, Euskadi Award, Francisco Umbral Award, Sweet Chacón Award, Arcebispo Juan de San Clemente Award ...), the one that has placed him as a writer called to mark epoch. His previous book, Self portrait without me (2018), is a delicious and personal set of poetic prose.

Santa Eulària reading club des Riu

Homeland (Fernando Aramburu)

Tuesday, 4 February 2020

20:00 horas

Free activity

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