The Long Field

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae The Long Field yn plethu straeon hiraethus am Gymru gyda hanes bywyd yr awdures ei hun. Mae Pamela Petro yn Americanes sy'n caru Cymru, mae'n hoyw, goroesodd ddamwain trên ac mae'n ferch i riant sy'n byw gyda chyflwr dementia.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The Long Field braids the essential hiraeth stories of Wales with Pamela Petro's own life - as an American who loves Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a train crash and as the daughter of a parent with dementia.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Pamela Petro is the author of three previous nonfiction books, all published by imprints of HarperCollins, UK. She is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School in Creative Writing at the University of Wales, where she’s also a Fellow, and teaches writing to both post-graduates and undergraduates in The States. Portions of The Long Field have appeared in The Harvard Review and The Paris Review . Her bestselling first book, Travels in an Old Tongue , recounted Petro's efforts to learn Welsh on a 15-country world tour.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Hiraeth is a quintessential Welsh word, famously hard to translate. It means far more than its English approximation of 'homesickness'; it is something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time. An acute awareness of the presence of absence. Through the pull and tangle of these stories we find both traditional and radical new ways of looking at hiraeth . The hiraeth of place and home, yes. But also queer hiraeth. And hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey the notion of hiraeth begins to morph, from a uniquely Welsh experience to one endemic to the human condition, from deep longing towards the sort of creative responses to loss which Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture.