-
How Spanish writer's novel about Eta terror campaign became global hit
As HBO series based on Fernando Aramburu’s Patria begins, author says his goal was to document a shared horrorTowards the end of Patria, Fernando Aramburu’s sprawling examination of the human cost of Eta’s four-decade-long terror campaign, a character attends a talk by an author who, as it happens, has written a “testimony to the atrocities” and their enduring consequences.While he suspects the writer’s heart is probably in the right place, he reckons “nothing will really change because someone’s written a book. So far, it seemed to him, Basque writers hadn’t paid very much attention to the victims of terrorism. They were more interested in the killers, their crises of conscience, their emotional backstories – all that stuff”. Continue reading...
More like this (1)
-
Mass trial of Basque activists in Spain ends with plea deal
Defendants accused of Eta membership in case alleged by critics to be politically drivenA mass trial...
