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  • Location: Bilbao

The Dinner Guest

The Dinner Guest

Why a Booktrail?

1977 onwards: The heartbreaking story of one woman’s struggle with family illness

  • Translator: Natasha Wimmer
  • Genre: Fiction

What you need to know before your trail

The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events – the very public death of Ybarra’s grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela cares for her.

Travel Guide

BookTrail Travel to Bilbao

The family history of the city:

“My grandfather Javier was mayor of Bilbao from 1963 -1969, as well as president of the Provincial Council of Vizcaya from 1947 to 1950, of the newspaper El Correo Espanol- El Pueblo Vasco – and of the Bilbao juvenile court.”

Past and present:

“The estuary of Bilbao, once a global symbol of progress, was now a muddy wasteland full of crumbling blast furnaces.”

“In 1983, the year I was born, a flood finally swamped Vizcaya’s ailing industry.”

BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Dinner Guest

Destination: Bilbao  Author/guide:  Gabriela Ybarra  Departure Time: 1900s

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