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PATRIA (10th anniversary edition with coloured page edges) SYNOPSIS: A commemorative edition of the latest major phe- nomenon in Spanish-language literature, ten years after its publication. Enriched with a new text by the author. “Few books manage to move me, but when I reached the last page I felt my eyes fill with tears.” The Sunday Times “ Is Aramburu the Tolstoy of the Basque Country, the author of a Spanish Guerra y Paz exploring the pain of forty years of senseless separatist terrorism?” The Guardian “A work of immense force... Reminding you how overwhelming and powerful literature can be.” Die Zeit “Worth every one of its pages.” Vogue (Germany) “Aramburu masterfully tells great events in an intimate way.” Stern “It is difficult to read Patria and remain unmoved.” Co- rriere della Sera When ETA announces it is laying down its arms, Bittori goes to the cemetery to tell her husband Txato, murde- red by the terrorists, at his grave that she has decided to return to the house where they lived. Can she live along- side those who harassed her before and after the attack that transformed her life and her family’s? Can she dis- cover who the hooded man was who killed her husband on a rainy day as he returned from his transport com- pany? However secretly she arrives, Bittori’s presence will disturb the village’s false tranquillity, especially that of her neighbour Miren, once a close friend and mother of Joxe Mari, an imprisoned terrorist suspected of em- bodying Bittori’s worst fears. What happened between these two women? What poisoned the lives of their chil- dren and husbands, once so close? With their concealed anguish and unshakeable convictions, their wounds and their courage, the searing story of their lives before and after the crater left by Txato’s death speaks of the im- possibility of forgetting and the need for forgiveness in a community broken by political fanaticism. 73 CULTURE AUTHOR: Fernando Aramburu PUBLISHER: Tusquets Editores YEAR: 2026