The Welsh Girl (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618918522)

Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, award-winning author Peter Ho Davies's The Welsh Girl is a beautiful, ambitious novel that takes the reader into the most personal corner of war (New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett), set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day.

When a POW camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when the astonishing occurs: Karsten, a young German corporal, calls out to her from behind the fence. From that moment on, the two foster a secret relationship that will ultimately put them both at risk. Meanwhile, another foreigner, the German-Jewish interrogator Rotherham, travels to Wales to investigate Britain's most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess.

In this richly drawn and thought-provoking work, all will come to question where they belong and where their loyalties lie.

Author: Peter Ho Davies
ISBN-10: 0618918523
ISBN-13: 9780618918522
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2008
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.74w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/24/2008 pg. 28