Fatherland

Vaderland is a grand novel about family, loyalty and struggle. Twenty years after the death of her husband, Bittori moves back to their native village. Her husband was murdered by the Basque terrorist movement eta, probably by the son of Bittori's childhood friend, Miren. Before Bittori dies, she wants to know the truth. She even thinks she can forgive Miren's son in order to close the past.

Bittori and Miren are marked by a political fanaticism that neither of them cared about but that has set them diametrically opposed. And now they must face their wounds and sorrows, choices and their lives. Is reconciliation possible?

Vaderland is a grand novel about family, loyalty and struggle. Fernando Aramburu describes with great humanity the victims and the perpetrators, in this masterful depiction of the bloody history that has torn the Basque Country apart.