Paris by Wiliam Owen Roberts
Paris (2013) is William Roberts' most ambitious work to date and can best be described as a contemporary historical novel. It concerns an extended family of Russian emigres struggling to survive in Paris and Berlin during the inter-war years of the last century, and examines the difficulty of holding on to one's identity in exile.
Wiliam Owen Roberts was born in 1960 and educated at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He worked for various theatre companies before joining HTV as a script editor in 1984. Since 1989 he has been a full-time writer and has written extensively for theatre, television, radio and film. His first novel Bingo! (1985) was described as the first postmodernist novel in Welsh. His second novel Y Pla (Pestilence; 1987) won the Welsh Arts Council Literature prize in 1988 and was subsequently translated into 10 languages. His third novel Paradwys (Paradise; 2001 was set on an imaginary Carribean island on the eve of the French Revolution and was short listed for the Welsh Book of the Year Award in 2002. Petrograd (2008) won the Welsh Book of the Year Award and the ITV Wales Readers Choice Award in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910901816 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910901814 |
| Title | Paris |
| Author | Wiliam Owen Roberts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Parthian Books |
| Year published | 2017-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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