The glow of the shadow

Arrate Egaña

The glow of the shadow

Erein 2022
152 Pages
Original title: Itzalen distira
ISBN: 978-84-9109-822-5

A former inmate who must leave behind a devastating memory. An atheist woman who wants to entrust her father’s funeral to a priest in the midst of a crisis of faith. An old woman obsessed with a little girl she sees through the window. A young couple who decide to take it upon themselves to clean up the waste left behind by hunters. A woman, the victim of a stroke, who embarks on a boring journey which may well be her last. A young man whose teenage romance resurfaces when he meets an old teacher. A woman whose addiction to fiction plunges her into a delusional episode. Three women are freed by a dark and unexpected story. The protagonists of these tales, trapped in tragicomic situations, must confront obsession, death or sacrifice.

This collection by Arrate Egaña will allow us to understand what is foreign to us.

Arrate Egaña

Arrate Egaña was born in Donostia-San Sebastian in 1963. She works in Bilbao as a language technician at the ISEI, an agency of the Department of Education which evaluates and studies the education system of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

She has published some thirty books for children, adolescents and adults, in different genres (theatre, novels, short stories, etc.). She has won several literary prizes, such as Baporea (1999), Erroxape (2000), Emakumeak Kontari (2002), Lizardi (2011), Gabriel Aresti (2012), Donostia Hiria (2012) and Mikel Zarate (2015).

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