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Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Goodwill Books, Hillsboro, OR, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Signs of wear and consistent use.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. Pages and cover are intact. Used book in good and clean conditions. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. 1st American ed. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. 1st American ed. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by Vintage, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679749586ISBN 13: 9780679749585
Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Vintage, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679749586ISBN 13: 9780679749585
Seller: HPB-Movies, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679749586ISBN 13: 9780679749585
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Vintage August 1994, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679749586ISBN 13: 9780679749585
Seller: Isle of Books, Bozeman, MT, U.S.A.
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Paper Back. Condition: Good.
Published by Random House: Vintage International, New York, NY, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679749586ISBN 13: 9780679749585
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: slight spine lean; light wear to extremities, with some creases near the lower front corner and another, fainter crease near the upper front corner; the pages have tanned a bit, due to aging; the binding remains secure; text clean. Not without flaw, but remains structurally sound and tightly bound: clean, sturdy, presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 326pp. Trade Paperback. I'd never read any Basque literature before reading OBABAKOAK. Probably that was because there isn't a lot of it. Many Basque writers might have written in Spanish or French--maybe that's one reason why--and then for centuries, Basque was always given low status, "not modern", "just for villagers", "not a proper language", and so on. So, I was very curious to know what kind of novel would come out of Euskadi, that region on both sides of the Pyrenees inhabited by an ancient people with a unique language. Now I know. The answer is.a very strange one. OBABAKOAK reminded me of one of those intricate Chinese balls carved from ivory in which there's a whole series of smaller and smaller balls inside. They have not been placed there, no, they were carved from one piece of ivory. OBABAKOAK is above all a paean to literature---life is nothing but a collection of stories, and stories can only reflect life. We may be born in small towns like Obaba with definite character, but when we depart to swim in wider seas, we lose the ability to go back, all the old mysteries of childhood remain just that, though we may try to unravel them from remote distances in time. Nothing is what it seems, though everything is, as in a dream, quite familiar. We turn to stories then, trying to explain life and loss to ourselves. That lizard of longing penetrates our brains. Perhaps we may even go crazy if we persist. Myths and superstitions loom large. We must give up the search for truth even if the desire to continue remains. OBABAKOAK means "the things having to do with Obaba village" and so, I supposed, it would be a novel about life or lives in a Basque village. Wrong ! While Obaba does play some role, the tales are far more wideranging---in time, subject and place---the Amazon, Hamburg, 9th century France, Baghdad, the Himalayas, some mythical Chinese cit, plagiarism, sex changes, murder, and escape. Nobody can escape their fate. Atxaga is intoxicated by literature, by the art of the story. His characters are both fictional and fictional-within-fiction. I often felt that the book had dissolved into a collection of diffuse stories with few connections. While most of the stories were indeed engrossing, some magical, some clever, some sharply didactic, I wondered why they belonged together. A couple characters from within the stories told did emerge into the overall story---that Chinese ball effect again---but many did not. Atxaga writes with a dry humor and a certain irreverence which I liked very much, but if there were literary allusions, I have to concede that I could not pick them up. The novel may fascinate you for some hours, but in the end, you may find yourself puzzled. They say that even the devil couldn't learn Basque. Maybe he couldn't really understand OBABAKOAK either. First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated.
Published by Vintage, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679749586ISBN 13: 9780679749585
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
Published by Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Lotsa Books, Fort Smith, AR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. [publisher: Pantheon, (New York, NY] First Edition Pantheon Books, New York, 1992. Cloth spine backed boards. Near Fine/ Near Fine, Stated First American Edition, (First Printing). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". No marks, folds or tears. Author's first novel. A winner of Spain's highest literary award, this novel was originally written in Basque. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. New.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Ragabooks, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition Stated. Transl from Basque by Margaret Jull Costa. 1st prtg indicated by number series on copyright pg. Grey boards, grey-blue quarter-cloth spine, unclipped board game color design dj, as new cond; 326 pp. Winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New.
Published by Pantheon Books, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.95.
Published by Pantheon, 1993
ISBN 10: 0679424040ISBN 13: 9780679424048
Seller: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good.
Published by Vintage, 1994
ISBN 10: 0679749586ISBN 13: 9780679749585
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.6.