Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Cove
Cove
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Cyfrol bwerus a thelynegol, myfyrgar a chynnil am ddyn mewn cwch sy'n brwydro i oroesi mewn dyfroedd dyfnion, ansicr.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
From the Jerwood-award winning author of The Dig , here is a short, sharp punch of a book about a man and a boat in deep, uncertain waters.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781783783861
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781783783861
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Cove
- Awdur / Author
- Jones, Cynan
- Current Price ex VAT
- £8.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £8.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2017-12-12
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Granta Publications
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 112 pages
- Size
- 129 × 198 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Nofelau a Storïau ar Gyfer Oedolion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Adult Fiction and Stories (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Straeon Byrion (yn Saesneg) | EN: Short Stories (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014). He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. Cove was also selected for the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize and a short story drawn from it, published in the New Yorker as 'The Edge of the Shoal', won the BBC National Short Story Award 2017 .
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be there is all but shattered. Now he must pit himself against the pain and rely on his instincts to get back to shore, and to the woman he dimly senses waiting for his return. With its taut narrative and its wincingly visceral portrait of a man locked in an uneven struggle with the forces of nature, this is a powerful new work from one of the most distinctive voices in British fiction. REVIEWS 'I found it hypnotically compelling, as exciting as it is meditative, and adored the pared down yet powerful, rippling, sensate writing. A terrific read', Colin Barrett, author, Young Skins 'After the scalpel-sharp prose of The Dig here Cynan Jones cuts into the language even deeper: in this new novel he pares down the prose to shining shards and crystalline phrases. Cove finds this master of concision on remarkable form, telling a sleek tale about one man and a boat which lingers hauntingly in the mind. At a time when novels are getting bigger and more bloated, this goes the other way - showing us how choice words in perfect order can expand the horizon well beyond a simple line', Jon Gower
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