Seven Houses in France

A dark comedy about the vanity of human desires which deftly balances compassion and cynicism * Financial Times *Bizarrely funny and beautifully crafted * Times Literary Supplement *Undeniably compelling * Daily Mail *A brilliantly inventive writer…He understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildly funny – A. S. ByattSeven Houses in France is an enjoyable, somewhat frightening novel by one of Europe’s best novelists… Atxaga is still the master of a complex story, told with deceptive simplicity – Michael Eaude * Independent *Atxaga’s grim and complicated story is lucidly told – Emma Hagestadt * Independent *Sharp * Guardian *Atxaga’s story is fresh and his treatment of violence psychologically rich * Guardian *It takes a special kind of genius to transform this most unpromising of locations into a vehicle for black comedy, but that is precisely what the Basque author Bernardo Atxaga achieves in this mesmerizing novel – Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday *

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 The Accordionist’s Son, 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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