Flowers of War

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Pub Date Jan 03 2022 | Archive Date Dec 17 2021

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Description

When the author is given a small package containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather’s brother, who was killed in Syria during the Second World War, it leads him on an extended personal journey. An exploration of history, imagination, and the process of memory, shifting imperceptibly from autobiography to travelogue, from letters and diaries to official records, from text to visual image.

When the author is given a small package containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather’s brother, who was killed in Syria during the Second World War, it leads him on an extended personal...


Advance Praise

A translation of Rhyw Flodau Rhyfel (Y Lolfa, 2014), which won the Creative Non-Fiction category in the 2015 Wales Book of the Year award.

‘A novel which attempts to document… a period not until now described or explored by a poet or writer with such intimacy and honesty.’ - Taliesin

‘Mature, adventurous, intelligent.’- Jon Gower

A translation of Rhyw Flodau Rhyfel (Y Lolfa, 2014), which won the Creative Non-Fiction category in the 2015 Wales Book of the Year award.

‘A novel which attempts to document… a period not until now...


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ISBN 9781912681259
PRICE $13.99 (USD)
PAGES 255

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