Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles. Katie Melua - Market day in Guernica. Guernica: A Novel - DAVE BOLING. Dave Boling on the writing of Guernica Fresh out of college, I met and married a lovely Basque girl whose grandparents had come from Biscaya to herd sheep in the mountains of the American West.
They filled me with Basque foods, got me drunk on their wines, and tried to teach me their dances. They showed me the Basques’ characteristically fierce loyalty to their families and heritage. From them I learned of the decades-long oppression of their culture by the Franco regime. And from them I also heard of the bombing of Guernica. Guernica tapestry.