Obabakoak Author:Bernardo Atxaga, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) "Obabakoak" is a shimmering, mercurial collection about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic Basque village. A schoolboy's mining engineer father tricks him into growing up, an unfortunate environmentalist rescues deceptively harmless lizards, and a rescue mission on a Swiss mountain-climbing expedition in Nepal turns into murder. Obaba... more » is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, while everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. « less