One Moonlit Night - (Canons) by Caradog Prichard (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This outstanding 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 innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL</b></p><p>This outstanding 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 innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.</p><p><i>One Moonlit Night</i> is one of Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction, a lost contemporary classic that deserves rediscovery.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Mitchell's translation has a speechlike, idiomatic quality that helps greatly in communicating why the novel is considered a contemporary classic of the Welsh language." --<i>Booklist</i><br><br>"Prichard's elegiac account of a troubled boyhood belongs on the same shelf with Patrick McCabe's <i>Butcher Boy</i>, Roddy Doyle's <i>Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha</i>, Benjamin Taylor's <i>Tales out of School</i>, and Frank McCourt's <i>Angela's Ashes</i>. Like McCourt, Prichard knows his way around an artfully embellished anecdote. . . . Readers will inevitably be reminded of another Welsh work, Dylan Thomas's <i>Under Milk Wood</i>." --<i>New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>An esoteric masterpiece.--Jan Morris<br><br>Caradog Prichard's wild, kaleidoscopic <i>One Moonlit Night</i> is widely considered to be the finest novel written in the Welsh language . . . the obvious reference point is Dylan Thomas's <i>Under Milk Wood</i>, but, for all its humour and energy, this is an altogether darker and more intense affair . . . Bleak as it is, <i>One Moonlit Night</i> is never less than beautiful, and Philip Mitchell's 1995 translation retains its power and sensitivity--Tom Bullough "Financial Times "<br><br>One of the oddest, most elusive, most haunting novels ever.--Niall Griffiths<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Caradog Prichard</b> (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 <i>Daily Telegraph</i>. During this time he wrote four prize-winning odes and this exceptional novel, which has posthumously been named The Greatest Welsh Novel of all time.
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