**WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**
**WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**
'Truly beautiful and haunting, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN
'A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story' RACHEL JOYCE
'In times of war, Lewis finds resilience, redemption and hope...DRIFT feels perfectly judged' OBSERVER
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM THREE-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA.
Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove.
Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker, incarcerated in a military base a few miles up the coast.
A violent storm will bring these two lost souls together - but other forces will soon try to tear them apart...
Moving between the wild Welsh coast and war-torn Syria, Drift is a love story with a difference, a hypnotic tale of lost identity, the quest for home and the wondrous resilience of the human spirit.
'A truly magical and transformative novel. I loved it.' KIRSTY CAPES, author of CARELESS
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A truly beautiful and haunting novel, and an incredible feat of storytelling * DONAL RYAN * A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story that weaves the magic of folk lore, the wonder of the sea, and the depths of human cruelty. It moves between the worlds it inhabits like the finest piece of driftwood. * RACHEL JOYCE * In times of war, Lewis finds resilience, redemption and hope...DRIFT feels perfectly judged * OBSERVER * Captivating from the off * Huw Stephens, BBC Front Row * A truly magical and transformative novel. I loved it. * Kirsty Capes * Original and timely... [shows] the resilience of the human spirit, the tenacity and love that helps us survive. * IRISH TIMES * A heart-wrenching, all at sea read -- you are going to want this on your radar. * ERICKA WALLER *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 132 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-80499-088-9 (9781804990889)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children's writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation - with a screenplay by Caryl herself - won six Welsh BAFTAS. Her other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. In 2023, she won the Wales Book of the Year Award for the third time for her debut English novel Drift, making her the first writer ever to have won in both languages. She is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth.
