The writer from San Sebastian, author of the bestseller “Patria”, is a fan of the city’s team: “I wanted to play for them, these guys know how to inspire me”
– san sebastian (Spain)
In front of the TV in his peaceful home in Hanover, today he too will wear a blue and white striped shirt, the blanquiazul which in Basque they call “txuri-urdin”: Real Sociedad returns to the Champions League after 10 years against vice-champion Inter, the The event should also be celebrated by the most illustrious fan of the San Sebastian team. Fernando Aramburu, 64-year-old master of European literature, was born and raised in this city before moving to Germany for love. And in these places in 2016 he set his masterpiece “Patria”, a beloved novel with over 2 million copies and 30 editions all over the world. Among the pages, the story of the wounds inflicted by Etan in the heart of Basque society, silenced for decades by so much violence. Then the TV series, inspired by the book and produced by HBO, to multiply the echo everywhere. That story has thus become everyone’s story: a social phenomenon, a tool to reflect, confess and redeem. And in the meantime Aramburu, between one award and another won in Europe, he has never broken the tightrope with his own city: for him San Sebastian will always mean Real Sociedad.