Griffri (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

'In the dream I'm travelling very fast and without effort high over the ground as if I'm a bird flying. There's the trackless mass of trees and strips of mountain ridges and the thread of river like sour milk. The sky is dark blue and red like bruises. I swoop down and then up to miss smashing into the crowns of the trees and I see the bruised air and the black horizon. I come to a figure standing on the heather. He stands with his arms flung out, the fingers spread, like branches. I come close to his face, to his untidy red moustache and his head split by an appalling wound.' On two nights separated by a gap of a dozen years, Griffri ap Berddig, a poet at the court of a minor Welsh prince of the twelfth century, tells his life story to a Cistercian monk. Part boast and part confession, his words turn into a compelling narrative which develops through an accumulation of obsessive images towards self-revelation. A complex mixture of historical detail and invention, Griffri is a serious and entertaining novel examining the limits of our knowledge of the world and ourselves.

General

Imprint:	Seren Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1995
First published:	June 1995
Authors:	Christopher Meredith
Dimensions:	220 x 215 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	258
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-85411-130-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-85411-130-2
Barcode:	9781854111302

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