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Nevada Days
Nevada Days | Bernardo Atxaga
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Nevada Days is a fictionalised account of Atxaga's nine months' stay as writer-in-residence at the Centre for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada. He is accompanied by his wife, ?ngela, who is also doing research there, and by their two daughters. During their first few weeks, the family encounter a strange mapache (racoon), which is always staring at them from the garden, a flight of helicopters immediately overhead, a black widow spider, a warning about bears, a party of prisoners in the desert, a lake that is somehow far too calm and too blue, and, not long into their stay, the kidnap and murder of a young girl living in the house right next door. Atxaga tells us about all these strange encounters, and about his colleagues at the university, about the trips the family make to California and across the Sierra Nevada and to Lake Tahoe, but this narrative is also interspersed with accounts of his dreams, with stories from his past. Nevada Days seductively weaves together past and present, and shows us how deeply marked we are by experience and history and relationships, however fleeting or enduring, and reminds us what a very strange thing life is. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
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shawnmooney
Nevada Days | Bernardo Atxaga
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An English translation of a novel by a Basque novelist about a Basque novelist living temporarily in—you guessed it—Nevada and remembering his homeland. "With past and present colliding, and mingling with Atxaga's dreams, Nevada Days works like a giant, impressionistic collage, a sober and thoughtful meditation on memory." Staaaaacked!

vivastory I had the privilege of seeing him read at one of the most unique reading spaces: Loft Literacy Center in downtown Minneapolis. 7y
shawnmooney @vivastory Wow, that's awesome! 7y
shawnmooney @vivastory I just googled the venue you mentioned, and it sounds absolutely incredible! 7y
vivastory @shawnmooney I have many fond memories of that venue. 7y
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Simona
Nevada Days | Bernardo Atxaga
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Not from the #indiebookstore but bought direct from Slovenian #indiepublisher Beletrina, which always have an interesting choice by various authors (and always high quality translations) and nice covers (especially hardback books).

#aprilbookshowers