Nevada days

Resource Information

The work Nevada days represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Nevada days

Statement of responsibility

Bernardo Atxaga ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

Creator

• trueAtxaga, Bernardo

Contributor

• Costa, Margaret Jull

Author

• trueAtxaga, Bernardo

Translator

• Costa, Margaret Jull

Subject

• Authors -- Fiction
• Nevada -- Fiction
• Autobiographical fiction
• Atxaga, Bernardo -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• baq
• eng

Summary

This is a fictionalised account of Atxaga's nine months' stay as writer-in-residence at the Centre for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada. He is accompanied by his wife, ngela, who is also doing research there, and by their two daughters. During their first few weeks, the family encounter a strange mapache (racoon), which is always staring at them from the garden, a flight of helicopters immediately overhead, a black widow spider, a warning about bears, a party of prisoners in the desert, a lake that is somehow far too calm and too blue, and, not long into their stay, the kidnap and murder of a young girl living in the house right next door. Atxaga tells us about all these strange encounters, and about his colleagues at the university, about the trips the family make to California and across the Sierra Nevada and to Lake Tahoe, but this narrative is also interspersed with accounts of his dreams, with stories from his past. Nevada Days seductively weaves together past and present, and shows us how deeply marked we are by experience and history and relationships, however fleeting or enduring, and reminds us what a very strange thing life is

Member of

• Nevadako egunak

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Spanish

Literary form

novels

Series statement

Read the world

Series volume

5

Target audience

adult