# Obabakoak

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- Book: [Obabakoak](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernardo-atxaga/obabakoak) ([Obabakoak.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernardo-atxaga/obabakoak.md))
- Authors: [Bernardo Atxaga](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernardo-atxaga)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4644-420-7
- Published: 2011-01-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries, Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial novel about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic, Basque village. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, whilst everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. Obabakoak is a dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory, all held together by Atxaga's distinctive and tenderly ironic voice.