Description
Set against the layered backdrop of South Wales history, this sharply comic satire turns lyrical storytelling into a philosophical inquiry. Through a distinctive plural narration, the novel gathers voices like a chorus to examine how people cling to illusion, mistake knowledge for certainty, and discover how power often arrives hand in hand with deprivation. As dreams are tested and broken, the book’s irrepressible laughter keeps pace with its savagery, inviting readers to look again at what they think they know. Gwyn Thomas’s most shaped work, it offers a universal dissection of human belief and longing—both intimate in its language and expansive in its social vision.
Available Editions
paperback
Parthian Books
Published Jan 1, 2008
220 pages
ISBN: 9781910409244
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First Published
1947
Language
eng
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