Welsh Girl（ISBN=） 英文原版

Review
‘A beautifully crafted, lyrical
novel’ — Maggie O’Farrell, Observer Books of the Year ‘Moving,
memorable and beautifully written’ — Jessica Mann, Sunday
Telegraph ‘Deeply felt and vividly imagined’ — Lionel Shriver,
Daily Telegraph ‘Fresh and engaging … Some sentences and passages
are crafted so beautifully and seemingly effortlessly that it
provokes envy.’ — David Cornett, Sunday Express ‘Quietly powerful
… a fine piece of work’ — Stephen Knight, Times Literary
Supplement ‘His prose and the evocation of time and place are
almost always of the highest order!he approaches the Second World
War with a fresh and contemporary style, a gift that he shares with
Kazuo Ishiguro’ — Russell Celyn Jones, The Times ‘A scintillating
instance of fictional imagination applied to history’ — Richard
Eder, New York Times ‘Impressive … a compelling story in itself,
but Davies’s special skill lies in integrating conflicts that drive
the narrative at a more intense level’ — Richard Gwyn, Independent
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Review

Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day,
Peter Ho Davies’s profoundly moving first novel traces the
intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a POW camp is
established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther
Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn
captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when the astonishing
occurs: Karsten, a young German corporal, calls out to her from
behind the fence. From that moment on, the two foster a secret
relationship that will ultimately put them both at risk. Meanwhile,
another foreigner, the German-Jewish interrogator Rotherham,
travels to Wales to investigate Britain’s most notorious Nazi
prisoner, Rudolf Hess. In this richly drawn and thought-provoking
work, all will come to question where they belong and where their
loyalties lie.

Peter Ho Davies’s first short story collection, THE UGLIEST
HOUSE IN THE WORLD, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the
PEN/Macmillan Prize. His second, EQUAL LOVE, was a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New York Times Notable Book. In
2003 he was named among the ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ by
Granta. He is currently director of the graduate program in
creative writing at the University of Michigan. The son of a Welsh
father and Chinese mother, Davies was raised in England and spent
his summers in Wales. He is married with one son.