What remains of the ashes

Igirabede is considered one of the most important Basque writers of novels, short stories, and poetry. He has won the National Prize for Literature and the National Criticism Prize on more than one occasion. He also writes novels and stories and is most interested in writing down the popular literature of his region and the entire Basque Country. He has written many studies and books about it. This novel of his is perhaps the most famous of his narrative works. A novelist who is an expert on his environment and people, he gives us amazing images of human relationships, ancient times, and stories that will not disappear from our minds easily. Characters, worlds, and times are gone, but here in the pages of the novel they are born and acquire a new life through our reading and contemplation of them and their climate, as well as in the novelist''s renewed and empowered style. Reading this novel will not let us down, but rather it will give us the opportunity to return to past times that still affect us and guide the steps of our coming days.