Bonds of Attachment

Land of the Living 7

Author(s) Emyr Humphreys

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism

Series: Land of the Living

  • March 2001 · 448 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708316252
  • · eBook - pdf - 9781417508433

In this novel, Peredur defies both his mother's hostility and his brothers' lack of concern to seek out the truth of his father's death and to take part in a protest against the 1969 Investiture that goes violently wrong. Only at the end when Amy Parry faces death can reconciliation be achieved.

'The supreme interpreter of Welsh life in English.' R. S. Thomas

Author(s): Emyr Humphreys

Emyr Humphreys is one of Wales's foremost novelists and author of 21 novels, including a past winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and works that are now set texts at A-Level. He is the author of volumes of poetry, short stories, cultural criticism and has also written a selected history of Wales, The Taliesin Tradition.

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