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|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse
|sort=Boy Who Stole Attila's Horse, The
|publisher=Pushkin Press
|date=March 2015
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>1782271015</amazonus>
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|summary=A startling and most memorable allegory, given due care and attention by a wonderfully presented pocket book form.
|cover=1782272224
|aznuk=1782272224
|aznus=1782271015
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If you pick up a copy of this book you realise how small it is. You'll know, of course, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here is the exception to prove the rule. It's wee. The story is on a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after the beginning, for we first meet Big and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck down a large well in the middle of a forest. Tasked with a family errand, they're trapped at the bottom of a natural Erlenmeyer flask, and even a desperate move cannot get either out. This is the story of the next three months in their existence, as they brave hunger, delirium, loss of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existence.
By trial or error, this publisher is sewing the market for Basque-originating political allegory right up - we enjoyed their all-ages volume, [[The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga]].
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