Water over Stones
A perceptive, moving novel about life and death in the Basque Country, from the author of Nevada Days.
Bernardo Atxaga’s Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle’s bakery, where his family hopes he will speak again. He’s been silent since a...
A perceptive, moving novel about life and death in the Basque Country, from the author of Nevada Days.
Bernardo Atxaga’s Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a young boy who has returned from his French boarding school to his uncle’s bakery, where his family hopes he will speak again. He’s been silent since a...
