From the Empty Harbour to the White Ocean (Paperback)

Llywelyn's 1994 novel, which won that year's National Eisteddfod of Wales Prose Medal, relates in irrelevantly gorgeous and sensuous sentences the Kafkaesque journey undertaken by protagonist Gregor Marini, a wanderer who stows away on a ship that takes him to an unidentified country (presumably Wales). What's suggested is that Gregor is fleeing an unhappy past, as he's hired by a Borges-like library to work as "Under-Cataloguer, Department of Mythology," then promoted to "Recorder of Fables" and sent to a remote "north country" where, we infer, his experiences parallel ones that will be familiar to connoisseurs of Welsh legend and myth. It's all quite pleasingly written, though we get little interpretive help from the phlegmatic Gregor, who doesn't travel very well. Neither, alas, does this novel. (Kirkus Reviews)

This is a modern romance that tells the story of a bewildered refugee named Gregor Marini who has to find his way through a world of half-real and half-fantastic territories in a quest for his past and future. The book has won the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal as well as the BBC Wales Writer of the Year Award.

General

Imprint:	Parthian Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2003
First published:	October 2003
Authors:	Robin Llywelyn
Dimensions:	200 x 130 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-9521558-2-9
Subtitles:	Welsh
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-9521558-2-6
Barcode:	9780952155829

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