Broken Ghost

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**

'Combines myth, drug culture and iconoclastic political vision in a wild music that's also a call to arms' New Statesman, Books of the Year

'A magnificently gifted writer' Irvine Welsh

A Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. Is it a collective hallucination, a meteorological phenomenon, or something supernatural? The individuals living in these mountains are already battling their own demons - of drink, drugs, domestic violence, depression - how could an apparition unite these crushed people or their fragmented country?

An examination of modern humanity's desperate need to live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world - where individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised and exploited - this is a novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the forgotten. Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and deeply moving, written in a charged language that is vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once. Broken Ghost is a howl of anguish and a summoning of gods.

'Griffiths has forged a chimerical piece of radical fiction, a Blake-like reverie on the possibility (or not) of spiritual regeneration in our time.' Guardian

'This is a book powered along with ferocious momentum by the raw nervous energy of its characters, whose demotic, alternating narratives seem to muscle bodily off the page.' Daily Mail

** PREZENTAT PENTRU CARTEA IN GALEA ANULUI 2020 ** „Combina mitul, cultura drogurilor si viziunea politica iconoclastica intr-o muzica salbatica, care este, de asemenea, o chemare la arme„ New Statesman, Books of the Year ”Un scriitor cu talent magnific„ Irvine Welsh comunitatea asista la o viziune ciudata: spectrul urias al unei femei care plutea peste o creasta.