One Moonlit Night

This autobiographical coming of age classic offers a "e;visceral, comic and tragic"e; portrait of rural life in Wales during the Great War (The Guardian, UK). Named the greatest Welsh novel by the Wales Arts Review, this beautifully rendered novel tells of a boy's hardscrabble life in rural Wales and his challenging yet at times transcendent journey into adulthood. In the 1910s, the village of Bethesda is a place of poverty and religion; illness and hard labor. But by the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world. "e;A remarkable book that recalls Under Milk Wood,"e; One Moonlit Night is one of Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction, a lost contemporary classic that deserves rediscovery (Times Literary Supplement). This edition of One Moonlit Night, "e;translated by Philip Mitchell in prose which miraculously conveys the incantatory biblical and Celtic cadences of the original,"e; includes a foreword by Niall Griffiths and an afterword by Jan Morris (The Guardian, UK).