Spain

The Dinner Guest
by Gabriela Ybarra

Collating newspaper clippings to build a detailed account, Bilboa-born Gabriela Ybarra reconstructs the kidnapping of her grandfather by Basque terrorists in 1977, six years before the author was born. In the midst of her research into her grandfather's murder, Gabriela has to deal with the loss of her mother. This remarkable story won the Euskadi Literature Prizein 2016 and in 2018 was nominated for the Booker prize.

Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Harvill Secker, 2018
First published in 2015
ISBN 9781910701980