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What I Know I Cannot Say / All That Lies Beneath (Paperback)
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What I Know I Cannot Say / All That Lies Beneath (Paperback)
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List price R277
Loot Price R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
You Save R30 (11%)
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In What I Know I Cannot Say / All That Lies Beneath, Dai Smith
combines a novella and a linked section of short stories to create
a dazzling fictional synthesis that takes the reader on a tour of
the South Wales Valleys during the twentieth century. Picking up
where his 2013 novel Dream On left off, What I Know I Cannot Say
follows the life story of Billy's father, Dai Maddox. When Billy's
former partner Bran shows up wanting to record Dai's life story to
put together a documentary, Dai looks back on his past, remembering
his childhood as a destitute orphan, his work as a collier in the
mines and the subsequent drifting between menial jobs, alleviated
only by reading and drawing; his enrolment in the British Army and
participation in the invasion of Italy during the Second World War;
and post-war life under socialism, when he was back in the pits and
married to Billy's mother, Mona.Moving from the heyday of the
pre-mechanised coal industry to the present day, What I Know I
Cannot Say presents a moving and vivid panorama of
twentieth-century Wales, brought to life by Smith's meticulous
attention to historical detail and distinct gift of invoking the
smells, sights and sounds of the past. We find ourselves smelling
the cordite of ammunition among the ruins of Cassino in 1943,
during the invasion of Italy; the damp coal in the mineshafts; the
beer-soaked wood of pub floors; the smell of fresh coffee from a
modern percolator. Dai's journey is an emotional and moving one,
told in gritty, realistic prose.All That Lies Beneath is
white-knuckle fiction ride: power, sex, money and ambition all
twist through the pages as Smith creates a feast of intellectual
and physical provocation in stories that send a shudder of fearful
recognition directly through to the reader.
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