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Technical data
Publishing date: 16/02/2010
208 pages
ISBN: 978-84-322-1280-2

Bilbao-New York-Bilbao / Bilbao-New York-Bilbao

Highlights

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Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2009 (National Fiction Prize), Premio Nacional de la Crítica 2008 (National Critics Prize).

A literary phenomenon that has completely revolutionized the Spanish publishing scene.

“Uribe is an author with numerous preoccupations, politically committed, with a global, humanist conscience and a direct and different voice.” PEN AMERICAN CENTER

Qué leer magazine calls Bilbao-New York-Bilbao one of the year’s five best books.

Synopsis

When Liborio Uribe found out that he was going to die, he wanted to see a painting by Aurelio Arteta one last time. He spent his entire life on the high seas and, like his son José, living unforgettable adventures that would later fade into obscurity. Years later, faced with the same painting, his grandson Kirmen, a writer and poet, uses these family stories to write a novel. Bilbao-New York-Bilbao takes place during a flight, telling the tale of three generations of the same family. Through letters, diaries, emails, poems and dictionaries, it creates a mosaic of memories and stories that combine to form a homage to a world that has almost disappeared as well as a hymn to the continuity of life.

Rights sold

Gallimard (France), Planeta Manuscrito (Portugal), Hakusui-Sha (Japan), Geopoetika (Serbia), Gernika (Russia), Enthusiast (Bulgaria), Cankarjeva založba (Slovenia)Ilia State University (Georgia), Toena (Albania), Edicions 62 (Catalan), Xerais (Galician).

International editions 

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Other titles of the author 

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Lo que mueve el mundo

What Makes the World Go Round

A story of exile told with sensitivity, tenderness and narrative skill from the Winner of the National Prize for Fiction.

Publishing date: 12 March 2013