An accessible introduction to the history of Wales's literature. I awoke from a deep sleep I had taken under the shade of a tree in a field at the outskirts of a dark wood, without remembering how I had gotten there, or, indeed, where it was exactly, I had gotten. So begins a most unusual odyssey, in which a writer--who bears a striking similarity to our author, Gary Raymond--allows himself to be led through the many-layered...