José Irazu Garmendia, known by the pseudonym Bernardo Atxaga, was born in Guipúzcoa in 1951. He belongs to the generation of writers who began to write in Basque in the 1970s. He has written in various fields of literature, but he is best known in his country and around the world for Obabakoak. This work, which describes the magical village of Obaba through interconnected narratives in which reality and imagination are intertwined, has been translated into more than twenty-six languages, received many awards, as well as the Premio Nacional de Narrativa, one of Spain's most important awards, in 1989, and was filmed. He has written numerous children's books. The difference between old traces and new ones fades with time, leaving only writing. A book. The following is engraved in the book: Two friends once passed through here, two brothers. The Accordionist's Son is Bernardo Atxaga's most personal novel. As we read the story of two friends, Joseba and David, the son of an accordionist, we follow a mosaic of different times, places and styles. From the 1930s to the late twentieth century, from Obaba in the Basque Country to California in America...