Contemporary Welsh Plays

Æblesmag er en novellesamling skrevet af den unge walisiske forfatter Rachel Trezise. Bogen handler om at være ung og vokse op i en åndsforladt walisisk mineby i Rhondda-dalen. Æblesmag består af 11 historier baseret på forfatterens opvækst. Novellerne har forskellige hovedpersoner, er humoristiske og ret bramfrie, men de gemmer alligevel på..

´Der var noget, der tydede på, at jeg var blevet født ind i en blindgyde.´ Den konklusion kommer Rebecca frem til allerede som 4-årig, mens hun står på fliserne foran huset. Her ser hun måbende, at hendes far bakker ud af indkørslen for sidste gang, mens hendes mor prøver at ramme bilen med en mælkeflaske. Og følelsen af at være drejet..

Det nye, unge forfattertalent Rachel Trezise skriver sig direkte ind i den walisiske og engelske litteratur med en stor og original røst. Og direkte ind i vores hjerter og sanser. Uden censur. Uden pegefingre. Og uden fordomme. Æblesmag handler om sex, drugs og rock´n roll i dag. Den handler også om pædofili, om et mord på en mand, der elsker..

'Went out, got pissed. Same shit, different day.'Aberalaw, a tiny South Wales valley village where nobody ever arrives and nobody ever leaves. The new police chief has declared war on recreational drugs, resulting in an eighteen-month drought. The party-loving wives and girlfriends of local punk band, The Boobs, are getting desperate, both for drugs..

Number 99 in the New Welsh Review series

Rachel grew up listening to the rock behemoths of the 1980s and harbouring an ambition to write a warts 'n' all rockumentary. At a rock gig in a Rhondda pub, she discovered Midasuno; a gaggle of Merthyr kids with conviction for neck breaking guitar riffs. She stepped onto the tour bus and tracked the band as they razed the British toilet circuit.

Migrants, immigrants, travellers, and holidaymakers feature in Dylan Thomas Prize-winner Rachel Trezise's second collection of short fiction: in eleven dazzling stories of lives lived on either side of boundaries, and on the fringes of society.

A new collection of eleven dazzling stories of lives lived on either side of boundaries, and on the fringes of society, is teeming with unforgettable characters whose dreams, yearnings and regrets are at once unique and universal, from Dylan Thomas Prize-winner Rachel Trezise.

You just know it's going to be one of those nights. She's on the change. I'm on my period. Hormonal teenager and neurotic mother under one terraced roof? My father's got a word for it: Tonypandemonium.

Debut novel from Rachel Trezise, winner of the Orange Futures Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. The story of a brutal childhood in the Welsh Valleys.