Flowers of War
by LLYR Gwyn Lewis
Pub Date 03 Jan 2022 |
Parthian Books
Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction (Adult) | Travel
I am reviewing a copy of Flowers of War through Parthian Books and Netgalley:
Flowers of War is a translation Rhyw Flodau Rhyfel (Y Lolfa, 2014), which won the Creative Non-Fiction category in the 2015 Wales Book of the Year award.
After the author is given a small package containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather’s brother, who was killed in Syria during the Second World War. This leads him on an extended personal journey. This book is an exploration of history, imagination, and the process of memory, shifting imperceptibly from autobiography to travelogue, from letters and diaries to official records, from text to visual image.
I give Flowers of War five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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