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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Adargraffiad o nofelig a straeon byrion y llenor nodedig, gyda chlawr trawiadol, newydd. Ceir cyflwyniad gan yr hanesydd a'r ysgolhaig Daryl Leeworthy.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Reissue of the celebrated Welsh writer's seminal short novel, repackaged with a stunning new cover. Introduction by acclaimed Welsh academic and historian Daryl Leeworthy.

Dosbarthu

Byddwn yn dosbarthu eitemau sydd mewn stoc o fewn 3 diwrnod gwaith, fel arfer drwy Royal Mail Tracked 48. Ar gyfer archebion o flaen llaw, byddwn yn dosbarthu’r eitem o fewn 3 diwrnod gwaith ar ôl ei derbyn gan ein cyflenwr.

Dispatch

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the 1920s, he went off to study Spanish at Oxford University and in Madrid, where he met the poet Federico García Lorca and witnessed the turmoil which would lead to the Spanish Civil War. On his return, amidst the economic mire of the 1930s and his own burgeoning teaching career in Barry in the 1940s, he picked up his pen and began to write. For more than forty years, until his death in 1981, as novelist, screenwriter, master of the short story, and prizewinning playwright, Gwyn Thomas delivered compelling and comedic portraits of his world of South Wales. His creative genius earned enduring fame on both sides of the Atlantic and on both sides of the European Cold War divide. As a provocative and insightful broadcaster, he embraced the possibilities of radio and television, whilst leaving his hosts and guests alike in fits of knowing laughter.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

A small Welsh valley community come together to form a carnival marching band in Gwyn Thomas’ farcical exploration of the social, economic and political turbulence abound in twentieth century Wales.