My Mother's House

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Nofel gyntaf yr awdures Lily Tobias (1887-1984) wedi ei gosod yng Nghymru, Lloegr a Phalesteina, yn cynnig portread dwys o berthyn, cenedligrwydd a hunaniaeth.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The first novel from the acclaimed author of Eunice Fleet - a poignant story of belonging, nationhood and identity set in Wales, England and Palestine.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Lily Tobias (1887-1984) grew up in Ystalyfera in the Swansea valley. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. She was a committed pacifist and two of her brothers were conscientious objectors. She moved to Haifa in 1936, living there until her death in 1984. Author of four novels and a short story collection, Tobias also contributed regularly to the Jewish press in the UK and Israel, and was the first to adapt Daniel Deronda for the stage.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Simon is a troubled young man…born in Wales, of Jewish heritage, and in love with Englishness and an English heiress. He determines to reject his Jewish and Welsh identity and the industrial valleys he grew up in and seeks to fulfil his ambition to rise in the Civil Service. His experiences in love and his professional life see him reject Edith on discovering that she is not what he believed her to be, and taking up arms in the fight against England’s enemies in the Great War. Ultimately, he must embrace his family and his heritage before he can experience a sense of wholeness. Simon’s experience raises questions of belonging, language, nationhood and identity that are as relevant now as they were in 1931 when the novel was first published. Lily Tobias’s sensitive individual and communal portraits illuminate some of the most topical personal, social and political issues of the twenty-first century.