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Bilbao-New York-Bilbao
Bilbao-New York-Bilbao takes place over the course of a flight between the airports of Bilbao and JFK in New York, and, bit by bit, reveals the story of three generations of the same family. Using letters, diaries, emails, poems and dictionaries, a mosaic of memoires and accounts is created that constitute a homage to an almost extinct world, as well as a hymn to the continuation of life.
With this novel, winner of the 2009 National Prize for Fiction, the 2008 National Critics’ Prize for Basque language, the Ramón Rubial Foundation Prize and the Basque Union of Booksellers Prize, Kirmen Uribe makes his dazzling debut onto the Hispanic fiction scene. Considered one of the most outstanding modernizers of contemporary literature, he enters the field of autofiction with a rich, complex, suggestive and genuinely moving style.