In this action filled tale, Laxalt shows the daring and sometimes violent world of the contrabandiers, Basque smugglers in the Pyrenees. Set in the 1960s, the story begins with Nikolas, driven by his family’s financial despair, taking on work from Gregorio, the patrón of a small team of smugglers. Nikolas must smuggle fifty horses over the mountain ridges between France and Spain. If he’s caught, jail and ruin are certain; death is possible. This engrossing novella, told with tight narration and compelling dialogue, shows the grinding poverty and ethnic tensions in Basque lands, fifty years ago.
- ISBN10 087417192X
- ISBN13 9780874171921
- Publish Date 30 October 2013 (first published 31 December 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 January 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nevada Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English