Patria (Homeland), by Fernando Aramburu

The Instituto Cervantes London Book Club will dedicate the months of February and March in three sessions to reading the novel Patria (Homeland), by the Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu. Thursday, 8 February. 19:00 h. - Chapters 1 to 43 Thursday, 22 de febrero 19:00 h. - Chapters 44 to 83 Thursday, 7 de marzo 19:00 h. - Chapters 84 to el 125 In-person and online – Hybrid Patria places its history in a fictional town in the province of Guipúzcoa in 2011, when the terrorist group ETA announced the abandonment of arms. Bittori, the widow of an ETA victim, decides then to return to the town that she once had to leave due to the climate of repression. Although things seem to be calm now, the arrival of Bittori will stir the waters and cause agitation among the neighbours, some of whom are old acquaintances of the family, as is the case of Miren, who was once her best friend, and who is the mother of a jailed ETA member whom Bittori suspects may be her husband's murderer.