The Road to Zarauz

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae'n haf 1954, ac mae pedwar gŵr ifanc yn prynu hen gar gan ffermwr ac yn ei yrru o Gymru yr holl ffordd i fynydd-dir Sbaen. Yn dilyn yr Ail Ryfel Byd, mae Ewrop yn deilchion, a chaiff y llanciau diniwed a breuddwydiol, a greithiwyd gan y rhyfel, haf i'w gofio.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

It is the summer of 1954. Four young men, on a summer vacation buy an old car from a farmer and drive it from the hills of Wales all the way to the mountains of Spain. It is only a few years since the war, Europe is still in ruins. They are innocent and war-scarred, dreamers and realists, men but not much more than boys. This will be their summer to remember.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Sam Adams is poet and novelist. He has written extensively on poetry and prose as an editor and critic. For further information: www.samadams.com Adams is a former editor of Poetry Wales, and a former chairman of the English-language section of Yr Academi Gymreig. He edited the Collected Poems and the Collected Stories of Roland Mathias, is the author of three monographs in the Writers of Wales series and is a frequent contributor of poems, criticism and essays to a number of magazines. His ‘Letter from Wales’ column appears regularly in PN Review (Carcanet).

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

It is the summer of 1954. Four young men, on a summer vacation buy an old car from a farmer and drive it from the hills of Wales all the way to the mountains of Spain. It is only a few years since the war, Europe is still in ruins. They are innocent and war-scarred, dreamers and realists, men but not much more than boys. They have their whole lives ahead of them. This will be their summer to remember. A beautiful, elegiac rumination on youth, friendship and the dreams that we hold. “A haunting meditation on memory and loss that takes the reader on a summer road trip to a vanished Spain. In this well-crafted, wistful novella, Sam Adams weaves his tapestry from fragments of a remembered friendship in a coming of age tale written with sixty years’ bitter hindsight.” – Richard Gwyn Sam Adams has created a rare novel in The Road to Zarauz, both timeless and very much of a time and a place, a past of hope and expectation erased in a moment, and what remains when hope is gone.