What We Tried to Bury Grows Here

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* Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist * "Daring... In What We Tried to Bury Grows Here , almost two dozen narrators vie to convey the danger and uncertainty of life in a country where "tomorrow you never knew who would throw you against the wall for the actions of today." We hear from priests and soldiers, mothers and children, prisoners and refugees. Amid the inevitable violence and horror, there are the equally inevitable heroes and villains, but for everyone the world has acquired 'an evil stink.' Mariana knows her compatriots have no choice but to fight on, yet she also knows that 'the war will make us unrecognizable to our former selves.'" —Alida Becker, The New York Times "Zabalbeascoa brings together family lore and mountains of research to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Spanish Civil War, particularly its impact on the people of Spain's Basque region." —Kate