Patria (novel)

Patria (2016) is a novel by the Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu published by Tusquets Eds. The story takes place in the Basque Country with the end of ETA terrorism.[1]

Story

The novel enters fully into the world of murderers, of its victims and the family context of each other. [2] The story begins when ETA definitely abandons its weapons. A widow, Bittori, goes to the cemetery to visit the grave of her husband who had been killed by ETA. Given the new situation, she decides to return to the house and the town where they had lived before the attack.[3]

The book has meant a literary revolution in the Basque Country. Everyone talks about the novel, in bars and in social gatherings, in school chats; the book runs out in bookstores and is continually borrowed in libraries. The book demonstrates the power of literature as pleasure and as a topic of reflection.[4]

The book has had a huge reception among the public. In Spanish it has been read by more than one million readers, and has been translated into English (Homeland, Pantheon Publishers 2019), German (with 80,000 books sold) and Italian (60,000 books). In 2019 it was published in Catalan. It has had more than 12 editions in Spanish.[3] It was also the 2016 Premio de la Crítica Award,[5] and the 2017 National Narrative Award.[6]

References
  1. Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post, March 21, 2019 "‘Homeland’ captures the personal costs of Spain’s violent political conflict"
  2. Croft, Jennifer (2019-05-02). "Repercussions From a Political Murder Play Out in a Spanish Village". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  3. "«Patria» será publicada en catalán el 3 de abril de 2019". abc (in Spanish). 2018-12-27. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  4. Hermoso, Borja (2017-02-13). "'Patria', el incómodo espejo de Euskadi". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  5. Morán, Carmen (2017-04-22). "Fernando Aramburu gana el premio de la Crítica por su libro 'Patria'". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  6. Cruz, Juan (2017-10-17). "Fernando Aramburu, premio Nacional de Narrativa por 'Patria'". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
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