Erein 2022 88 Pages Original title: Zerria ISBN: 978-84-9109-788-4 Translated into: click here
Glaciologists who study icy regions describe the long history of our planet’s climatic cycles, as if they were studying the world’s DNA: the ice ages, the warm periods… At this critical moment of retreat and thawing, the glaciologist Bereket discovers the mummified bodies of a woman and a man in the Tsanfleuron Glacier in Switzerland and, alongside them, the body of a bear. A study of their DNA, which becomes an obsession and an inducement, will lead him to journey from the Alps to the heart of the Pyrenees in the late nineteenth century, where he will discover a history of abuse and an infanticide carried out by a pig. The tragedy finds its climax on the gallows, with the execution of the animal dressed in a man’s clothing at the hands of an executioner, before an astonished and diverse crowd.
Patxi Zubizarreta was born in the Basque Country and lives in Vitoria-Gasteiz, where he finished his studies of Basque Philology. The Basque tradition -the roots- is present in Urrezko giltza (The Golden Key) —a work included in the IBBY Honour List— and in a book about the Spanish Civil War, Hiru gutun Iruñetik (Three letters from Pamplona). This topic was reflected in his performance titled Ants, horses, elephants at the Bologna Children´s Book Fair in 2015. Different types of journeys and migrations —the wings— are also shown in Zubizarreta´s prizewinning pieces like Usoa and Korri, Kuru, korri! (Xia Tenzin´s Wonderful Journey), a theme reflected in his performance titled Flying Over Paper at the IBBY congress in London. His translated piece from French to Basque, Le Petit Prince (Printze Txikia & The Little Prince) is also on the Honours List.
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