The Plum Tree

This new translation ofY Goeden Eirinmakes the writing of John Gwilym Jones available to English-speaking readers for the first time. Intensely interested in how literature works, Jones produced engaging and accessible stories, that bear comparison to James Joyce and other modernists. His preoccupations include religious dogma, family life, friendship, and the duality he considered the defining characteristic of human behavior. Expertly translated with comprehensive footnotes, this is an invaluable introduction to one of the most celebrated Welsh authors.

John Gwilym Jones is a former radio play producer at the BBC in Bangor and a former lecturer and reader in Welsh at the University of Bangor. He has published many plays, several works of criticismm, and two novels, as well as the short fiction represented in The Plum Tree.