The Long Field by Pamela Petro

The Long Field by Pamela Petro

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Zusammenfassung

The paperback edition of the highly acclaimed memoir in which the American travel writer, Pamela Petro, writes a love letter to Wales and explores the meaning of 'hiraeth'.

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The Long Field by Pamela Petro

The paperback edition of the highly acclaimed memoir in which the American travel writer, Pamela Petro, writes a love letter to Wales and explores the meaning of 'hiraeth', a famously hard to translate word which approximates to a deep longing for an irretrievable place, person or time. The Long Field takes the original hiraeth stories of Wales and weaves them into Petro's own life: as an American who loves Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a train crash, as the daughter of a parent with dementia. In The Long Field Petro concludes that hiraeth as a response to loss is the wellspring of creativity.
'An absorbing meditation on the meaning of home' Daily Telegraph, best travel books of 2021; 'The Long Field has an ageless energy.' Chris Moss, New Welsh Review; '...a rich meditation on the meaning of hiraeth and memory.' Jon Gower, The Nation/Cymru
Pamela Petro is the author of three previous non-fiction travel books. She is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School in Creative Writing at the University of Wales. Her bestselling book, Travels in an Old Tongue recounted Petro's efforts to learn Welsh on a fifteen-country world tour.
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ISBN 13 9781915068170
ISBN 10 1915068177
Titel The Long Field
Autor Pamela Petro
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Little Toller Books
Erscheinungsjahr 2023-03-01
Seitenanzahl 320
Preise Short-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2022
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