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One Moonlit Night: (Un Nos Ola Leuad) (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by: Caradog Prichard

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141180618
ISBN: 0141180617
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: January 07, 1999
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 322941

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- A lovely evening for a walk
Imagine, in your old age, returning to the village where you grew up; wandering through the ghostly old haunts of your childhood in the eerie light of a full moon; each and every landmark representing a rare happy or painful memory in your life. And what a life. Through the medium of lively, 'speech mark free' narative of a North Wales slate village at the turn of the 20th century, we delve into the traumatic past of a nameless man who has returned to his native village for the last time. We are thrown into a world of chaos where most of the inhabitants are either mad, sexually perverted or suicidal - all of whom play a part in the rise downfall of the main character. A brilliant read - the author manages to portray his native village with ... Read More:

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- Brilliant but disturbing,,,
This book centres on what would be called a dysfunctional village nowadays, and the experiences of a dysfunctional boy within this village. The extreme poverty and deprivation in which the characters live takes its toll on all of the inhabitants mentally, and the abuse this generates turns this North Wales village into perhaps the saddest you will ever encounter in literature. Poverty, perversion, Child abuse, Transvestism, Madness, Death, Murder, all are seen through the eyes of the main character, never named, who cannot grow up mentally and brings himself to distruction. The treatment of the difficult subject matter is not lurid, but sensitive and deeply sad, just like the main character, who never really understands what is happening ... Read More:

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