Alys Conran
Pijin
Author: Alys Conran
ISBN: 9781910901359
Publication Date: 24 May 2016
Publisher: Parthian Books, Cardigan
Adapted/Translated by Sian Northey
Format: Paperback, 203x127 mm, 264 pages
Language: Welsh
♥ Welsh-language Book of the Month: June 2016
An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the years. Sian Northey's Welsh translation of Pigeon.
The following has been provided by the Publisher:
Author Biography:
Alys Conran’s fiction, poetry, and translations have been placed in several competitions, including the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Manchester Fiction Prize. Having previously studied English literature at Edinburgh, she completed her MA in creative writing at Manchester. She also ran projects to increase access to creative writing and reading among traditionally excluded groups in north Wales. She was recently awarded a scholarship to write a second novel.
Further Information:
An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the years.
Pigeon is the tragic, occasionally hilarious and ultimately intense story of a childhood friendship and how it's torn apart, a story of guilt, silence and the loss of innocence, and a story about the kind of love which may survive it all.
• This book will be simultaneously released in English (ISBN 978-1-910901-23-6)
• Alys's fiction, poetry, and translations have been placed in several competitions, including the Bristol Short Story Prize and The Manchester Fiction Prize.
• Alys is being pitched for an event at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival
• This title is one of the eight comprising Parthian's ambitious Parthian Europa Carnivale writing in translation project
ISBN: 9781910901359
Publication Date: 24 May 2016
Publisher: Parthian Books, Cardigan
Adapted/Translated by Sian Northey
Format: Paperback, 203x127 mm, 264 pages
Language: Welsh
♥ Welsh-language Book of the Month: June 2016
An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the years. Sian Northey's Welsh translation of Pigeon.
The following has been provided by the Publisher:
Author Biography:
Alys Conran’s fiction, poetry, and translations have been placed in several competitions, including the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Manchester Fiction Prize. Having previously studied English literature at Edinburgh, she completed her MA in creative writing at Manchester. She also ran projects to increase access to creative writing and reading among traditionally excluded groups in north Wales. She was recently awarded a scholarship to write a second novel.
Further Information:
An incongruous ice-cream van lurches up into the Welsh hills through the hail, pursued by a boy and girl who chase it into their own dark make-believe world, and unfurl in their compelling voices a tale which ultimately breaks out of childhood and echoes across the years.
Pigeon is the tragic, occasionally hilarious and ultimately intense story of a childhood friendship and how it's torn apart, a story of guilt, silence and the loss of innocence, and a story about the kind of love which may survive it all.
• This book will be simultaneously released in English (ISBN 978-1-910901-23-6)
• Alys's fiction, poetry, and translations have been placed in several competitions, including the Bristol Short Story Prize and The Manchester Fiction Prize.
• Alys is being pitched for an event at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival
• This title is one of the eight comprising Parthian's ambitious Parthian Europa Carnivale writing in translation project