All That Followed Lib/E (Audiobook)

from snora

I read this novel as an Early Reviewer. On one level, this is a story of political intrigue in the Basque countryside. It is, also, the story of a small village where everyone knows each other and gossip reigns supreme. The events surround the politically motivated murder of a town councilman. Th...

from kara.shamy

I just finished All That Followed earlier today, and I'm still trying to get my bearings. What just happened to me? Whatever it was, I sure liked it. Knowing this was a work of literary fiction, I expected stylized prose and sophisticated technique that would make me inclined to pause and ponder ...

from bcquinnsmom

Gabriel Garcia Marquez pops up in this book from time to time, and in many ways, the themes for which he is famous reverberate throughout the novel. As a blurb from this book notes, it examines "politically-charged act of violence that echoes through a small Spanish town," but it does so in a uni...

from dallenbaugh

Urza has written a compelling first novel on the political undercurrents hidden in a quiet town in Spain's northern Basque Country that has been torn apart in the past during the reign of Franco. The story is told from three points of view so that as the story goes back and forth from the present...

from aimless22

The novel opens in 2004, after a train station bombing in Madrid. In the small Basque town of Muriga, the locals hope that suspicion does not again fall onto their townspeople. Six years earlier, a councilman was kidnapped and killed by young men in Muriga. Joni, an American ex-pat living in Muri...