The Child
The Child
By: Aramburu, Fernando
Published by Europa Editions, 2026
"Based on a real-life school explosion near Bilbao that killed fifty children in 1980, The Child follows one family--parents, grandparents, and the lost boy of the novel's title--through the long, painful arc of grief. Aramburu's gift lies in his ability to portray ordinary people with extraordinary humanity: small gestures, fleeting thoughts, contradictory impulses, the quiet heroism of resilience. His prose is unadorned, piercing, and all the more powerful for its restraint. The grandfather who refuses to believe the boy is gone; the parents determined to "be strong;" the town that both remembers and forgets--each is rendered with exacting truth and tenderness in careful, and caring, prose"--
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