"Dafydd seamlessly amalgamates the extraordinary into the everyday in her reworking of 'Culhwch and Olwen'" The Guardian 2011 Life is tough for Cilydd, after his wife Goleuddydd, who is nine months pregnant, seems to vanish into thin air at a supermarket one wintry afternoon. Cilydd gets his cousin
New Stories from the Mabinogion - Meat Tree
โ Scribed by Lewis, Gwyneth
- Book ID
- 109131622
- Publisher
- Seren
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-IE
- Weight
- 949 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781781721254
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A retelling of the Mabinogion fourth branch, including the story of Blodeuwedd, a woman made of flowers. A dangerous tale of desire, DNA, incest and flowers plays out withing he wreckage of an ancient spaceship in The Meat Tree; an absorbing retelling of one of the best know Welsh myths from prize-winning writer and poet, Gwyneth Lewis. An elderly investigator and his female apprentice hope to extract the fate of the ship's crew from its antiquated virtual reality game systrem, but their empirical approach falters as the story tangles with their own imagination.
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