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Memoirs of a Basque Cow

Author: Bernardo Atxaga

Translator: Margaret Jull Costa   Cover design: Marie Lane   Cover illustration: Jesus Gaban Bravo  

One dark and stormy night, Mo hears her Inner Voice urging her to begin writing her memoirs. Having ignored her Inner Voice’s advice once before, with near-fatal consequences, she decides, this time, to do as she is told. Mo looks back on her life, beginning with the crucial moment when she met another cow, who introduced herself as La Vache qui Rit, and assured Mo that there was nothing more stupid in this world than a stupid cow. Mo spends her life trying to prove to her friend that, despite being a cow, she is not at all stupid. Besides, she has her Inner Voice and a great desire to live! Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, in which defeated Republican supporters are still being persecuted by victorious Nationalists.

Memoirs of a Basque Cow paints a funny, touching portrait of friendship and freedom, and the sometimes difficult process of finding oneself.
Translated by the UK's finest translator of Spanish, Margaret Jull Costa.

RRP: £9.99

No. of pages: 224

Publication date: 06.03.2020

ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 912868 01 8
Ebook
978 1 912868 27 8

Rights:
Dedalus World English