
Petrograd
William Owen Roberts(Author)
Parthian Books (Publisher)
Published on 17. August 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
550 pages
978-1-909844-56-8 (ISBN)
Description
It's the summer or 1916 and the Alexandrov family prepare to embark on their annual holiday, accompanied by an army of staff primed to cater to their needs. Teenage, precocious Alyosha Alexandrov has never known anything but a life of privilege. He spends his days avoiding study and pursuing pretty young maids. But Russia is poised on the brink of epochal political upheaval and within a year Alyosha is separated from family, security, and the innocence of youth. Set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, spanning the turbulent years from 1916 to 1924, Petrograd is a vast, ambitious novel from an award-winning writer. The first in a trilogy, and winner of the Wales Book of the Year Award (Welsh Language), it tells the compelling, convincing story of the Alexandrov family as they each struggle to adapt to the ravages of war and revolution.
Reviews / Votes
"An epic novel... you can almost smell Russia." BBC Arts "...one of the highlights in the history of the novel in Wales." The Welshman "This is a novel with a huge international appeal." BBC Cymru "a substantial, perceptive and highly readable novel." BarddasMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-909844-56-8 (9781909844568)
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Person
Petrograd is Wiliam Owen Roberts' fourth novel. To date he has written six original TV series and three films, as well as series and plays for radio and the stage. His first novel Bingo! was published in 1985, followed by Y Pla (1987), which won the Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature in 1988, appeared in English in 1991 as Pestilence and has since been published in nine languages. His latest novel, a sequel to Petrograd, called Paris was published in 2013, and the third novel in the trilogy will be published in 2016.

