ISBN: 0450029328
Godina izdanja: 1976
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Richard Llewellyn - Down Where the Moon Is Small
New English Library, 1976
367 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Llewellyn, who has never quite equalled How Green Was My Valley, again changes scenes and this time writes about a small Welsh colony in Patagonia in the early 1900`s. The prose is obscure and densely Welsh-English, and the story is often told backward or not at all. Nevertheless the subject holds, the characters and scenery are wildly colorful, and the very obliqueness of both style and narrative translates the reader into a totally different world.... Huw Morgan, carpenter and newcomer to the Colony, marries Lal, a beautiful girl and superb horsewoman, the heiress to vast acres. Lal goes off to Buenos Aires to protect her land from a lawsuit, while Huw becomes an Army contractor, building roads and wagons, and makes a fortune. Meanwhile he falls under the spell of an Indio princess, Lliutro, and Indian life. To escape Lliutro, he joins Lal and their son in B.A. But wealth and civilization cannot hold him, and he returns to the Andes, their child is killed, Lal rides over a cliff to her death, and Lliutro takes Huw away with the tribe and keeps him drugged for years.... Based on historical fact, Llewellyn`s story has a genuine feeling of frontier life in the wild mountains, of the Indians, and of the mystery of a faraway new land.

Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) was a British novelist.

Llewellyn was born of Welsh parents in Hendon, north London in 1906. Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St. Davids, West Wales was false, though of course he was of Welsh blood.

Several of his novels were dealt with a Welsh theme, the best-known being How Green Was My Valley (1939), which won international acclaim and was made into a classic Hollywood film. It immortalised the way of life of the South Wales Valleys coal mining communities, where Llewellyn spent a small amount of time with his grandfather. Three sequels followed.

He lived a peripatetic life, travelling widely throughout his life. Before World War II, he spent periods working in hotels, wrote a play, worked as a coal miner and produced his best known novel. During World War II, he rose to the rank of Captain in the Welsh Guards. Following the war, he worked as a journalist, covering the Nuremberg Trials, and then as a screenwriter for MGM. Late in his life, he lived in Eilat, Israel.

Protagonists who assume new identities, often because they are transplanted into foreign cultures, are a recurring element in Llewellyn`s novels, including a spy adventure that extends through several volumes.

Llewellyn married twice: his first wife was Nona Sonstenby, whom he married in 1952 and divorced in 1968, and his second wife was Susan Heimann, whom he married in 1974.