Publisher's Synopsis
"In 1979, when Arantxa Urretabizkaia's Why Little Darling was published, a wave of positive surprise spread throughout our land. The first edition was 63-pages long, and Hordago published it. On those pages, for the first time (because we had never read anything like this before), we could read the story of a woman who had been abandoned by her husband. It is worth mentioning that up until that point, the field of Basque literature had been cultivated mostly by men-men and priests-with the the efforts of Jon Mirande (1925-1972) as the only exception. The narrator has a little son, whom she calls her little darling, as a practically mute interlocutor, and she hopes that somehow her husband will return. She speaks from the doorway of feminism, separating the roles of women and men. This is a modern voice. Her hopes won't come true and her destiny will be to be alone, represented by the proximity of the cold winter. It is a beautiful novel
