One Moonlit Night
Published on 8. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-84767-107-3 (ISBN)
Description
This simple 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 childish innocence is exchanged for a shocking introduction to the horrors of the adult world.
First published in Welsh in 1961, Philip Mitchell's translation, the first complete translation in English, captures all the vibrancy of Prichard's magnificent prose.
In this new edition Jan Morris and Niall Griffiths explain why this remains one of the Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction.
First published in Welsh in 1961, Philip Mitchell's translation, the first complete translation in English, captures all the vibrancy of Prichard's magnificent prose.
In this new edition Jan Morris and Niall Griffiths explain why this remains one of the Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction.
Reviews / Votes
An esoteric masterpiece. -- Jan Morris Heart-wrenching. A classic to be read and reread. * * Daily Telegraph * * One of the oddest, most elusive, most haunting novels ever. -- Niall Griffiths A remarkable book that recalls Under Milk Wood. * * Times Literary Supplement * * One of the great lost voices of Welsh literature. 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 read. * * Observer * * A very moving, often funny account of childhood. * * Spectator * * Lyrical and visceral, comic and tragic, compellingly earthy and maddeningly gothic - after 40 years this literary oddity continues to elude classification. * * Observer * * Challenging, compressed and utterly compelling. * * Guardian * * Premonitions of insanity and the mercurial personality of its narrator give the story a hallucinatory, ambiguous edge. * * Herald * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
134 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84767-107-3 (9781847671073)
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Persons
CARADOG PRICHARD (1904-80) was born in the slate-quarrying town of Bethesda, in north-west Wales. He moved to London, and after the Second World War became a sub-editor on the foreign desk at the Daily Telegraph. During this time he wrote four prize-winning odes and this exceptional novel.