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歷數威爾士十佳書籍
[ 2007-03-07 10:33 ]
 Grits
Niall Griffiths
A powerful, often bleak work which has been compared to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting
Grits is the story of a group of disenfranchised loners who meet in a small coastal village in West Wales at the end of the 1990s.
The members of the group are brought together as they try to escape their various addictions - alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, petty crime - and find meaning within their blighted lives.
Each character's story is told phonetically in their own rich dialect, which effectively carries their personalities from the page.
An uncompromising, often bleak novel, Grits is certainly a difficult book, but the dedication of any reader will be rewarded.
The Element of Water was chosen by Radio 1 presenter Bethan Elfyn as her Welsh book of choice.
《砂礫》講述了一群被社會遺棄、離群索居的人的故事。20世紀90年代末，他們在西威爾士的一個海濱小鎮上相遇了。
他們曾經酗酒、吸毒、亂交或犯有其他的輕微罪行，為了擺脫各自的不良嗜好，這群人走到了一起，并且從他們挫敗的人生中找到了生活的意義。
每個人物的故事都以他們各自豐富的方言娓娓道來，人物鮮明的個性躍然紙上。
作為一部主旨明確、色彩陰郁的小說，《砂礫》必定很難讀懂，但是只要你細心品讀，一定會獲益無窮。
《砂礫》被第一廣播電臺主持人Bethan Elfyn(貝瑟·艾爾芬)選為她的威爾士優選書籍。
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