My Valley Was So Green

English novelist Richard Llewellyn's masterpiece My Valley Was So Green, early 20th century Wales It tells the experiences of a mining family in the region from a historical perspective.

This is a fairy-tale story that tells the story of happy and well-fed workers working in the mine, singing songs, through the eyes of Huw, the youngest member of the Morgan family. Afterwards, it becomes an epic novel of the joy and light destroyed by capitalism, the vanishing labor, the murdered nature and the changing social structure.

Huw, Angharad, Bronwen, Dai Bando, Cyfartha, Mr. Gruffyyd, Owen, Davy, Marged, Aside from people who will leave a mark on the reader such as Gwilym, Beth, and Ceridwen, the main characters in the narrative are the valley and the mine.

Through these main characters, who are not glossed over with literary descriptions but portrayed as forces that direct human life and change with people, innocence and solidarity are shown. We watch as its green becomes tinged with the greedy, savage black of the slag. Being aware at every moment that we are being drawn into a language that is as poetic as it is exciting, and that we are touching a book that we will never forget...

Published in 1939, entering the "bestseller list" in 1940, where it remained for many years, and adapted into a movie in 1942 ( and winner of five Oscars), My Vadim Was So Green, which has long gone beyond the borders of England and gained a fan base all over the world, is on Yordam Kitap in Gani Yener's beautiful Turkish.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2. Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Printing Year: 2019

Number of Prints:1. Printing