Publication Date: 01/03/2023 ISBN: 9781915068170 Category:

The Long Field

Pamela Petro

Publisher: Little Toller Books
Publication Date: 01/03/2023 ISBN: 9781915068170 Category:
Paperback / Softback

£14.00

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The paperback edition of the highly acclaimed memoir in which the American travel writer, Pamela Petro, writes a love letter to Wales and explores the meaning of ‘hiraeth’, a famously hard to translate word which approximates to a deep longing for an irretrievable place, person or time. The Long Field takes the original hiraeth stories of Wales and weaves them into Petro’s own life: as an American who loves Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a train crash, as the daughter of a parent with dementia. In The Long Field Petro concludes that hiraeth as a response to loss is the wellspring of creativity.

Publisher Review

'An absorbing meditation on the meaning of home.' Daily Telegraph, best travel books of 2021; 'The Long Field has an ageless energy.' Chris Moss, New Welsh Review; '...a rich meditation on the meaning of hiraeth and memory.' Jon Gower, The Nation/Cymru

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