The Summer Flood

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae Owen Morgan, myfyriwr israddedig yn Rhydychen, yn dychwelyd i'r cartref teuluol ar arfordir gwledig y gogledd am yr haf. Ar ôl gadael am y brifysgol a chwblhau ei flwyddyn gyntaf gyda mis yn yr Almaen, mae Owen yn dychwelyd fel dyn newydd, ar ôl blasu annibyniaeth, cyfeillgarwch newydd, ac archwilio'i rywioldeb.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Owen Morgan, an Oxford undergraduate, returns to his family home on the rural north coast of Wales for the summer. Having left for university and completing his first year with a month in Germany, Owen returns as a changed man, altered by his experience of independence, new friendships, and the exploration of desire.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Goronwy Rees (1909 – 1979) was a Welsh journalist, academic, and writer. Born in Aberystwyth as the youngest son of four of Reverend Richard Rees and Apphla James, the family moved to Cardiff in 1923, where Rees gained a scholarship to New College, Oxford. As an undergraduate Rees wrote his first novel, The Summer Flood (1932), the first of ten books he would write during his lifetime. Graduating with a First and as an elected Fellow of All Souls, Rees turned to journalism, spending much of the 1930s reporting from Berlin. In these intellectual circles he met Guy Burgess, Elizabeth Bowen, and Rosamond Lehman. He married Margaret Morris in 1940. On the outbreak of World War Two, Rees was commissioned to the Royal Welch Fusiliers, until 1946 when he returned to the UK to work in the political section at MI6. By 1953, Rees left London for Aberystwyth, becoming principal of the University College of Wales, only to resign in 1957 as suspicions arose around his involvement with Guy Burgess, his friend turned Russian spy. Rees’s literary achievements have often been overshadowed by his entanglements with MI6 and the Soviets, yet his work still deserves to be read as a significant Welsh voice in 20th-century literature.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

The latest title in Parthian’s Library of Wales series. With a foreword by Mike Parker and an afterword by Norena Shopland. ‘He is a hero – a flawed one of course, but a true hero all the same.... We have so much to thank him for.’ – Mike Parker ‘Goronwy Rees... won many admirers, male and female, but made as many enemies.’ – Kenneth O. Morgan ‘Goronwy Rees’s Summer Flood occupies an important place in the vanguard of queer literature.’ – Norena Shopland Owen Morgan, an Oxford undergraduate, returns to his family home on the rural north coast of Wales for the summer. The world has changed for Morgan. He is a man coming to terms with himself. University has offered new experiences; desires he had suspected but never acted upon have become real. It was a crime against both the law and God. He asks for forgiveness each time. A month in the decadence of Weimar Germany has shocked and enthralled him. At home, his cousin Nest waits for him; patient, loving. Matthews will be waiting for him in college; impatient, demanding.