![]() ![]() It spurs my imagination." Rather than focus on historical moments that could potentially burden the narrative with their familiarity, Davies directs his attention instead to composing stories that embody "… small bubbles, pockets of history-chapters that aren't well known, or, if they are known, ones that have an overlay of popular myth." "Think of England" is one such story. Working with historical material, where there's already some factual basis, accentuates that slyness for me. "One of the things I enjoy about fiction is its slyness. ![]() In bringing his characters to life, however, Davies is careful to navigate the line between history and fiction, saying. ![]() The story is essentially the beginning of The Bad Shepherd (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), a novel which centers on a Welsh barmaid's relationship with a German prisoner of war who works on her family's farm and lives on the grounds of what was once a summer camp. However, after intermittent periods of revision, it became part of a historical novel that Peter Ho Davies has been working on for the past few years. "Think of England" (2000) began as a short story, which was later included in the anthology Best American Short Stories 2001. ![]()
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