WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVELThis outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed,and their innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.One Moonlit Night is one of Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction,a lost contemporary classic that deserves rediscovery.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781782116769Number of pages: 192Weight: 145 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mmEdition: Main - Canons Edition
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A remarkable book that recalls Under Milk WoodOne of the great lost voices...For its portrayal of a vanished way of life,and for its evocation of the tearless sadness of insanity,this strange,melancholy book deserves to be widely readHeart-wrenching. A classic to be read and rereadAn esoteric masterpiece.Lyrical and visceral,comic and tragic,compellingly earthy and maddeningly gothic - after 40 years this literary oddity continues to elude classificationOne of the oddest,most elusive,most haunting novels ever.A very moving,often funny account of childhood.Utterly compellingPremonitions of insanity and the mercurial personality of its narrator give the story a hallucinatory,ambiguous edge.Lyrical...Prichard's elegiac account of a troubled boyhood belongs on the same shelf with Patrick McCabe'sThe Butcher Boy,Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes...Readers will inevitably be reminded of another Welsh work,Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood,that portrays various colourful inhabitants of a minuscule community...Whether grim or playful,Prichard's vision in One Moonlit Night is communicated in language that provides intense esthetic pleasure. Those of us who do not know Welsh can only speculate about the texture and cadences of the original...The sketches of various townspeople are especially sharp and often movingCaradog Prichard's wild,kaleidoscopic One Moonlit Night is widely considered to be the finest novel written in the Welsh language...the obvious reference point is Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood,but,for all its humour and energy,this is an altogether darker and more intense affair...Bleak as it is,One Moonlit Night is never less than beautiful,and Philip Mitchell's 1995 translation retains its power and sensitivityAn early precursor to The League of GentlemenPhilip Mitchell's reworking of Prichard's Welsh conveys the particularity of a time and place that existed recently in years,but a world away in feeling
Caradog Prichard
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Jan Morris was a Welsh historian,author and travel writer,best known for her travel writing on Venice and Trieste and the Pax Britannica trilogy about the British Empire.
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