Author: Fernando Aramburu
- Fiction
- TusQuets 
- ISBN: 9788483835463
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Miguel Valladares

Fifth novel of this already consecrated Basque author born in San Sebastián in 1959, and the first written about a typically Basque subject. From Germany, where he resides teaching Spanish language and literature as a professor of the University of Lippstandt, Aramburu has "thrust" upon us a stark, multiple-voiced novel focused on the theme of ETA violence and its social repercussions. Using a fragmented narrative as a stylistic device to perhaps avoid sentimentality, Aramburu has produced an excellent indictment against all forms of fanaticism. Before closing this brief summary, I would like to emphasize that the literary merits of this excellent author are now being recognized not only by literary critics (refer to Fernando Aramburu, Storyteller, written by Jose Manuel Diaz de Guereñu) but also by European publishers, as witnessed by the recent translation of The Trumpeter of Utopia (El trompetista del Utopía) into Italian, added to the translation into German of his first novel Fires with lemon (Fuegos con Limón).