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Availability:In StockContributor:Julian ZabalbeascoaPublish date:2/10/2026Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Two Dollar RadioISBN-13:9781953387264ISBN-10:1953387268UPC:9781953387264Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, War & Military, Cultural HeritageBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC04X18RQ3
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War, now in a new paperback edition.

"Julian Zabalbeascoa is the real deal, a major talent, and the story he's telling here is both riveting and terrifying." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls

In late 1936, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in Northern Spain, spurred to join the fight to preserve his country's democracy from the insurrectionists by the rousing words of a political essayist. Months earlier, Spanish generals launched a military coup to overthrow Spain's newly elected left-wing government. They assumed the population would welcome the coup, but throughout the country people like Isidro remained loyal to the ideals of democracy, and the Spanish Civil War began in bloody earnest.

In Bilbao, Mariana raises her two young children while, with her writing, she decries the fascist-backed coup attempt and their German and Italian allies, imploring the world to support democracy. As the Nationalist forces assault the country, Mariana and Isidro's lives intersect fleetingly, yet in meaningful and lasting ways.

What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a remarkable feat of research and imagination, as well as a transcendent literary accomplishment.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Two Dollar RadioISBN-13:9781953387264ISBN-10:1953387268UPC:9781953387264Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, War & Military, Cultural HeritageBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC04X18RQ3
Julian Zabalbeascoa's fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, The Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, One Story, and Ploughshares, among other journals. He divides his time between Boston and the Basque Country in Spain. What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is his first novel.
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio

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