The Accordionist's Son

The first great Basque novel * Times Literary Supplement *A briliantly inventive writer… terribly moving and wildly funny – A. S. ByattThis most delicate and personal of novels packs a powerful political message * Independent *Incredibly powerful… magnificently written * Financial Times *A magical novel that exlores friendship and memory, language and loss * Metro *In all his work, Atxaga delves into the impact of the political on individual lives. What is most moving in The Accordionist’s Son is the push and counter-push of these pressures on a believable individual (and Margaret Jull Costa’s elegant and unfussy translation gives us a clear view of him in English) * Guardian *Bernardo Atxaga’s books are performing an important service to his people and his language * Times Literary Supplement *Charming and compelling * Big Issue *Each character is a world, a story marvellously integrated into the whole…A master storyteller has become a fabulous chronicler of reality. If Obabakoak charmed us, The Accordionist’s Son charms and moves us * La Vanguardia *This is a richly textured, beautifully-written glimpse into a world that makes its otherworldliness felt * Sunday Business Post *

Bernardo Atxaga was born in Gipuzkoa in Spain in 1951 and lives in the Basque Country, writing in Basque and Spanish. He is a prizewinning novelist and poet, whose books, including Obabakoak and Seven Houses in France, have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages.Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator from Spanish and Portugese for over twenty years, translating such writers as Jose Saramago, E a de Queiroz, Luis Fernando Verissimo and Fernando Pessoa. Her work has brought her a number of prizes, the most recent of which was the 2010 Premio Valle-Inclan for Javier Marias’ Your Face Tomorrow 3- Poison, Shadow and Farewell.

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