Our Bookshelf
Browse our Bookshelves, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
Drift
Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a smallcottage above a blustery cove. Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker, incarcerated in a military base a few miles up the coast. A violent storm will bring these two lost souls together - but other forces will soon try to tear them apart...Moving between the wild Welsh coast and war-torn Syria, Drift is a love story with a difference, a hypnotic tale of lost identity, the quest for home and the wondrous resilience of the human spirit.
- Transworld (2022)
Agnes Watters
Transworld Publishers Ltd/ Doubleday
AWatters@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk
Reviews
”Drift is a rare novel imbued with the lingering aura of the mythic story – a reminder that good writing can shine hope on even the darkest issues of grief and war. Lewis finely weaves her imaginings, expertly paced, until their intensity churns like a collapsing wave.”
Read more reviewsCaragh Medlicott, Wales Arts Review