Bilbao - New York - Bilbao

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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When Liborio Uribe found that he was going to die, he wanted to see a painting once again by Aurelio Arteta, his wife's father. Uribe had spent his entire life at sea, like his son José, living out unforgettable adventures which actually later fade into obscurity. Years later, faced with the same painting, Liborio's grandson Kirmen, a writer and poet, uses these family stories to write a novel.Bilbao-New York-Bilbao takes place during a flight to New York and tells the story of journeys of three generations of the same family. The key to the book is Liborio's fishing boat, named 'Dos Amigos': who are these two friends, and what is the nature of their friendship?Through letters, diaries, emails, poems and dictionaries, it creates a mosaic of memories and stories that combine to form a homage to a would that has almost disappeared, as well as a hymn to the continuity of life. A novel, it is also a reflection on the art of writing, and lies between life and fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-10-10
Mått210 x 136 x 15 mm
Vikt257 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
FörlagPoetry Wales Press
ISBN9781781722053
UtmärkelserWinner of Premio Nacional de Narrativa (National Novel Prize) 2009

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Kirmin Uribe is an acclaimed writer in the Basque language. Born in 1970, the son of a trawlerman, he studied Basque Philology at the University of the Basque Country-Gasteiz, and was a postgraduate in Comparative Literature in Trento, Italy. His poetry collection, Take My hand was published in Spanish, French, English, Catalan and Russian, and won the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. He as also written books for children and in the past decade has created multimedia events. Elizabeth Macklin is an American poet, and an experienced translator of Basque literature.

Uribe is an author with numerous preoccupations, politically committed, with a gobal, humanist conscience and a direct and different voice' - PEN America Center on Take My Hand. 'Uribe has succeeded in realizing what is surely an ambition for many writers: a book that combines family, romances and literature, anchored deeply in a spoken culture but also in bookishness - and all without a single note of self-congratulation.' - TLS on Bilbao-New York-Bilbao