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Bezig met laden... Grensland (1960)door Raymond Williams
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. First published in 1960, but set for the most part in the 1920s and 30s, this book was recently reissued by the National Library of Wales as part of an initiative to make more widely available the literary output of Wales written in English. Will (or Matthew) is a university lecturer in London, where he is researching population movements of South Wales, where he grew up. He is called back to his home village in the Welsh Borders to visit his father, Harry, who has suffered a heart attack and the book tells their early story together and the sequence of events that led to Will moving away. Theirs was a relationship where little had been said but much felt and this new crisis raises difficult feelings for Will and makes him look again at his past and his relationship with his parents, family friends from his childhood and with his own wife and children. The book evokes the old Welsh village life in the Welsh Borders extremely well. But the border country of the title is more than just the geographical border - it is also about the borders between past and present, staying and leaving, silence and speech, life and death. Sparingly written, moving and thoughtful. This was a reading group book. I enjoyed it more than expected and got quite emotionally involved with the characters. The story of a father and son in the border country of Wales and their relationship over the years. The father knows his own mind but never communicates while the son is torn between his academic London life and his home life as a Welsh working class son. Worth a read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke, his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr. As Matthew and Harry struggle with their memories of personal and social change, a beautiful and moving portrait of the love between a father and son emerges. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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As well as a moving story about love between father and son, this is a quiet tale of Welsh family and social history published in 1960. Williams evocatively describes the old way of life in the rural border country and the changes that are inevitable There is some Welsh dialect that serves to remind readers of where we are.
The Wales Arts Review awarded this Greatest Welsh Novel, well deserved.
The foreword is by Dai Smith, who holds the Raymond Williams Chair at the University of Wales.
The delightful cover Little Train was painted in 1948 by Charles Burton, one of Wales' foremost artists. ( )