Alan M. Kent

The Cult of Relics: Devocyon Dhe Greryow Alan M. Kent

"The Cult of Relics" is a new novel by Alan M. Kent (author of "Proper Job, Charlie Curnow!" and "Electric Pastyland"), presented in a bilingual format, with a Cornish-language translation, "Devocyon dhe Greryow", by Nicholas Williams. The story is set in Western Britain in the mid-1990s just after the Gulf War, and tells of three extraordinary people: of the New-Age Traveller Jude Fox, of the American photojournalist Eddie Hopkins, and of the Cornish-born archaeologist Robert Bolitho. The three characters discover a set of connections between them, stretching back to the early seventeenth century. Kent's intriguing story weaves together their disparate lives with that of the mysterious "Stranger", whose preservation of a curious holy relic becomes a focus for their collective need for communion and hope. -- "The Cult of Relics" yw novel nowyth dhyworth Alan M. Kent (auctour a "Proper Job, Charlie Curnow!" hag a "Electric Pastyland"), hag yma va dyllys gans trailyans Kernowek Nicholas Williams, "Devoycyon dhe Greryow". An whedhel-ma a gebmer le i'n West a Vreten Veur in cres an bledhydnyow mil, naw cans, peswar ugans ha deg, termyn cot warlergh Bresel an Morbleg. Yth eson ny ow metya ino gans try ferson, meur a les: Jûd Fox, Viajyores a'n Oos Nowyth; Eddie Hopkins, an fôtojornalyst Amerycan; ha'n hendhyscansyth dhia Gernow, Robert Bolitho. Ymowns y aga thry ow dyscudha bos kescolm intredhans dhyworth bledhydnyow avarr an seytegves cansvledhen. I'n whedhel hudol-ma yma Kent ow qwia warbarth bêwnans kenyver onen anodhans gans an "Stranjer" kevrînek. Crer sans ha stranj re beu gwethys ganso ev, ha'n dra-na yw an crespoynt a'n othem a'n jeves kettep onen a gowethyans ha govenek.