From the title of this curious book is perceived the need to play with words. Go with Hizkimilikiliklik! Under the title of this book you can see 28 sets of letters. Thus, the reader can find a story that has been completed with words of “b” (“On one occasion… The forest guard Beñat Bengoa Bergaretxe was left alone in the forest…”), characters with names and surnames in the same letters in a poem (Luzia Azilu, Garazi Garzia, Itziar Arizti…) or with the vocal “a”. Lots of geese…”).

The reader will find in each of the sections a game that sometimes seeks the complicity or involvement of the reader (e.g. in the search for the missing), and in others the surprise or the smile.

 

Curious and worked book by Iñaki Arranz, who invites the reader to play with the language; will writers like those created come to mind? Where will the next episode come from? And, in fact, because there are 28 letters in the alphabet (there is also a chapter to explain the alphabet), there are 28 paragraphs that make up the book. Some are quite short, as the initial poem, but the game proposed on other occasions gives it to five stories, as in the case of “All in the absence of something”. In this story we are told the same story five times, and in each one a vowel is missing in the story, so in the first one we are told the story of a young woman who disappeared on the way of the snack after passing by the narrator; then, without the letter “o”, “i”, “e” and finally “a” we are told the disappearance of the girl, although to do so the writer has to make some small changes.

 

Go with Hizkimilikiliklik! We have a very special book in the Basque letters, and as it has narrative, it also has poetry; it's more, I think that instead of reading the stories one after the other, we have to gradually go, like the pintxos, devouring or reading them, with the game of each one, participating in the game proposed by the author.

 

In the gastronomic section we could say that it is a work of 28 sweets, and in that sense, like the sweets, one by one, enjoying them, they are a part to take. Hoping that in the end the reader will have enough “recipes” to create new sweets… or, at least, caramels!