Homeland
(Book)

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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2019].
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Book
Edition
First American edition.
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Clallam Bay - Fiction (Adult)
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2019].
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 590 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English

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Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011 when the group proclaimed an end to its savage insurgency. Erstwhile lifetime friends--especially the generation of parents on both sides--the two families become bitter enemies when a father of one is killed by ETA militants, among them one of the sons of the other family. Told through a succession of more than one hundred short sections devoted to a rich multiplicity of characters whose role in the story becomes clear as one reads. Homeland brilliantly unfolds in nonlinear fashion as it traces the consequences for the families of both the murder victim and the perpetrator. Aramburu alludes only obliquely to a historical matrix even as he focuses on the psychological complexity of his characters while building nearly unbearable narrative tension.
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Text in English translated from Spanish.