One Moonlit Night, first published in 1961, is a Welsh literary masterpiece. This is the first ever complete English translation.
The novel is written in a deceptively simple, lyrical style. Narrated in the first person, it starts out as a boy's exuberant view of the world set, unwittingly, against a backdrop of appalling deprivation around the time of the First World War.
As the boy, with his friends Hugh and Moi, comes of age, the assumed sanity and surety of their world begins to fall apart and the story builds to an excruciating climax, as shocking as it is profound.
The Reviews
'Prichard's elegiac account of a troubled boyhood belongs on the same shelf with Patrick McCabe's Butcher Boy, Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes...Prichard's vision is communicated in language that provides intense aesthetic pleasure.'New York Times
'Philip Mitchell's brilliant translation will help ensure that One Moonlit Night becomes a classic in the English-speaking world.'
Washington Post
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192 pages
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Caradog Pritchard (1904-1980) was born in the slate-quarrying town of Bethesda, in north-west Wales. Pursuing journalism as a career, he ended up as a sub-editor on the foreign desk at the Daily Telegraph. During this time he wrote four prize-winning odes and this exceptional novel. He remained in London until he died.
