Respecting the other
Rara is the first word that this girl tells us on the front page: “I find it strange to always see a yellow wig hanging in the first floor window.” And that's exactly what that girl looks at, and she looks hung, in front of the window on the first floor, a yellow compass, an average, a wig dripping.
“My mother says it’s weirder than that, the Zubizarreta hang their bare clothes,” our fine narrator tells us. And in the image we can see the members of the Zubizarreta family naked at home (father hanging clothes, mother reading the newspaper on the couch, son next to the mother, daughters… And so we will see the rarity of the neighbors of the house, that the grandmother does not leave home, that a child with vegetarian parents is always eating chorizo snacks, that the mother of Jenna was helping in the tasks in
It is curious that this album originated in the XI. He has just won the Etxepare Prize and, in fact, the contribution that this event makes to Basque culture is a pleasure. On this occasion, for example, I think it has brought us a very innovative piece of work. Not only for the text and images (with vivid and very well-marked forms of colour, with accurate and clear information) but also for the theme it deals with. We would say that there are many themes (each neighborhood has a different, different, different character), but above all one stands out, that of acceptance, that of respect for others. It is work for the freedom of human beings. Be yourself and accept what others are.
The narrator starts the story with the weird word, which is the most repeated word throughout the book and the one that ends the book. On this occasion, but with a completely different sense, a message against the rarity: “The weirdest thing about it is that I find myself less and less weird.”
PELLOKERIAK
Ruben Ruiz
Illustrations: Joseba Beramendi, exprai.
Elkar, 2022
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Rubén Ruiz offers a new work of short stories. They are not micronarratives, because the stories, although they can be read independently, have a... [+]
Memet
Noemie Marsily and Isabella
Cieli For Centos, 2022
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We opened the zipper of the camping in red and looked through the leek along with Lucy. With this cover, the reader receives the comic book Memet. Simple words... [+]
A Heart Museum
Leire Vargas
Elkar, 2024
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The Basque cultural system has a thirst for young people. That's what Leire Vargas said in the written column in Berria. The industry is looking for fresh, varied and diverse... [+]
What you love. Word recall, live reading
Miren Billelabeitia
Pamiela, 2022
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Miren Billelabeitia has been a professor at the institute, a literary aficionado and a professor of Universal Literature for years. In 2022 he... [+]
Snarka Lewis Carroll
Hunting
Images:
Translation and Edition of Henry Holiday:Manu LÓpez Gaseni
Pamiela, 2024
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The work we have before us was published in the spring. After the works of Alice in Wonderland,... [+]
Lighting
Miriam Luki
Susa, 2023
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Translations
Miren Agur Meabe
Elkar, 2023
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Last year, Miren Agur Meabe published the novel Itzulerak. As the main characters are young people, we could say that it is juvenile literature, but when literature is good, it is for... [+]
Text:
Ilan Brenman
Illustrations: Guilherme Karsten
translation: In Alkain
Denonartean, 2024
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At the end of this album is a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “There has never been a good war, nor a bad peace.” And... [+]
Pozo
Goiatz Labandibar
Erein, 2024
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The Pozo de Goiatz Labandibarren is a growth novel that takes place one day: the descent of menstruation. Or in other words, a hero's journey, why not.
As often happens in this... [+]
Sorry as if there were no
Mariana Travacio
Erein, 2024
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Although the title may seem like a self-help book, this is a Western text that Erein has published in the narrative section. In the excellent translation of... [+]
Josefa, neskame
Alaitz Melgar Agirre
Elkar, 2022
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Josefa Agirre Etxeberria was one of the women who was raised during the Franco regime. After being exiled at the age of fourteen, he was forced to change his residence... [+]
In the maze of
the theatre I Ander
Lipus EHAZE and Susa
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Playwright Ander Lipus has published with EHAZE and Susa his publications on theatrical autobiography and theatre. In the maze of theatre I. Notebook of Bitácora and... [+]
-It was an ordinary afternoon. For anglerfish.” This evening is what Maite Mutuberria tells us in this album. The book has very few texts and the images tell us very well the development of history.
From the beginning we can see in the illustrations a large and quiet... [+]
The one who approaches this book, first of all, will be with G. It meets the images of Mabire. They are comic style images, very accurate strokes and celestial experiences that help to easily interpret characters and situations. These images coincide with the text, which is... [+]