The Accordionist’s Son
By Bernardo Atxaga
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Harvill Secker £18.99
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The life story of David Imaz opens with his death in California in the 1990s. As he looks back over his 1960s upbringing in the politically fraught Basque village of Obaba, it is clear that this incredibly powerful story is more than a mere coming-of-age tale.