Alaska

Castillo Suarez

Alaska

Elkar 2023
72 Pages
Original title: Alaska
ISBN: 978-84-13602-42-4
Translated into: click here

Alaska is a restaurant that was once in Altsasu, an establishment full of travellers and tourists which was even mentioned by Bernardo Atxaga in one of his books. The owner had made enough money in that cold northernmost region where America meets Siberia, so he set up the restaurant first and, later on, a large elegant hotel in Etzegarate, which had a swimming pool that is nowadays abandoned. Much has been written about heartbreak and abandonment, but little about the invisible threads that connect us to places, preventing us from mourning them. In fact, we leave our lives, our pieces, in people we will not see again and in places we will not visit again. And we all have an Alaska within us. We all have a place chained to our memories, a place we remember clearly or partially. Someone we loved, someone we do not know where they are today.

Castillo Suarez

Born in Alsasua (1976), she currently lives in Arbizu. She holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Basque Studies and works as a Basque Language Technician for the local authority. She is a corresponding member of Euskaltzaindia, the Royal Academy of the Basque Language. Her work has received awards and has been translated into several languages. In the last few years, as well as various volumes of children´s literature, a number of books by this author from Navarre have been stacked on bookstore shelves, all of them in Basque. Her latest published works are the poetry books Irautera (Persistence, Elkar, 2019) and Alaska (Elkar, 2023). She also manages the literature blog Iparraldeko neska (A girl from the Northern Basque Country).

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