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Mar 17, 2025
Jessica Haider
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A strongly evocative book about life on the harsh land of north-east Scotland before the First World War, and the changes that the war brought.
Reason read: 2025, March botm. Published 1932. Scottish author. Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It is considered one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. It is the first part of the trilogy A Scots Quair. 'Sunset Song' is a testament to Scotland's agricultural past, to the world of crofters and tradition which was destroyed in the First World War. It is a powerful description of life in the first few decades of the century through the evocation of change and the lyric
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I almost didn’t read this book because I struggled so much the opening chapter. As the author’s introduction says, this is an attempt to be true to Scottish dialect. There’s a glossary, and I spent a lot of time trying to translate. (I later read that Gibbon actually advised American readers to skip the prelude they found it too difficult.) I switched to audiobook and tore through it. True, I couldn’t understand every word, but I got the gist of it. The narrator (Lesley Hart) is wonderful, and s
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Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount)
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