Homeland (Patria)
by Fernando Aramburu and Alfred MacAdam (translator)
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“Patria has been the biggest hit in Spanish literature, with over a million copies sold. And it’s an 800-page book! The easy blurb is that this is the Spanish War and Peace. It’s set in a very small town in the Basque Country and it’s about ETA and the ETA period—ETA being the Basque separatist terrorist movement that ran a violent campaign between 1960 until the ceasefire in 2010 that prompts the narrative of Patria. It’s the story of two families who are both unhappy in their own way. And it’s about the relationship between them.” Read more...
