Homeland / Fernando Aramburu ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aramburu, Fernando, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Mac Adam, Alfred J., 1941- translator.

Standardized Title:

Patria. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

ETA (Organization)--Fiction.

ETA (Organization).

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Violence--Fiction.

Violence.

Victims of terrorism--Fiction.

Victims of terrorism.

Forgiveness--Fiction.

Forgiveness.

País Vasco (Spain)--Fiction.

País Vasco (Spain).

Genre:

Fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Physical Description:

vii, 590 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]

Language Note:

Text in English translated from Spanish.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781524747121

1524747122

OCLC:

1040186613