Winner of the 2013 Beterriko Liburua Award and the 2013 Zazpi Kale
Prize, the prize of Bilbao book fair. `But what if we are all
fictioneers? What if we all continually make up the stories of our
lives? (...) Our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,
within or even against the constraints imposed by the real
world...' J.M. COETZEE A writer in her late thirties retreats to
Landes in France for a while, fleeing from her own suffering after
the break-up of a relationship. Little by little, she finds solace
in writing about the losses in her life, about her person, and
about indifference and freedom, and in sharing the doubts that
arise in her creative process with a `you' whom she imagines to be
on the other side of the paper. The glass eye, a self-referential
element of the author-protagonist and metaphor for pain and
transcendence, also represents the literary concept of the work, a
private notebook where fiction imitates and replaces a fragmented
reality. Translated into English by Amaia Gabantxo, arguably the
most prestigious Basque-English translator working today.
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