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Cargando... Hawkfall (1974)por George Mackay Brown
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) bodachliath | Aug 10, 2016 |  The fishermen gathered round it, unwrapping their pieces. James of Dale sank his gums into a wedge of new cheese; the pale juice ran down into his beard. Abel Bews of Lombist had two cold smoked cuithes. Harold Bews cracked the delicate grey-blue shell of a duck egg on a stone. Peter Simison took from under his jacket a large round bannock, thickly buttered. Howie the carpenter had two boiled crabs. Peter and Howie shared their food. Tom of Estquoy say slightly apart from the other men. He had a slice of bread from the baker's at Hamnavoe, doubled over, with honey in the middle. 'I never eat when I'm drinking', said Sander Groat, and winker, and raised the ale jar. A selection of stories set in the Orkney Islands at various historical periods. They are very atmospheric stories, mostly realistic stories about the lives of the islanders, but a few of them have a touch of the supernatural. The stories really capture the hard lives of the fishermen and crofters, and just how lonely it could be in such a small remote place for the incoming ministers and schoolteachers. You also feel the sadness at how the islands are gradually becoming depopulated as young folk and those with a more adventurous spirit leave for new lives in the cities or the Dominions. And even in the stories set in the twentieth century, the Scandanavian names of places and people hark back to the time before the Orkneys became part of Scotland, and remind you that the islanders are the descendants of the Vikings. Loved it - definitely a keeper. Vocabulary: cuithe = a coal-fish noust = boat beaching place (  )2  isabelx | Apr 26, 2013 | )1 CarolKub | Jun 21, 2010 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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This collection of eleven stories, first published by The Hogarth Press in 1974, demonstrates the full range of George Mackay Brown's literary talent. George Mackay Brown was steeped in the life and traditions of Orkney, a world set firmly between the sea and the sky, where time has an altogether different nature and significance from the rest of the world. 'In Orkney,' wrote Edwin Muir, 'the lives of living men turn into legend.' The rich history of the islands – the succession of Neolithic man, Pict, Norsemen, Scot – leaves its impression upon the life of modern Orkney and is reflected in this finely wrought collection. Mingling past and present, the human world and the spiritual, George Mackay Brown brings together both the modern islanders and the Orcadians of centuries past, for the same lineaments are discernable in both. 'Hawkfall', the central story, traces the vicissitudes, violence and hypocrisies which recur over many generations; in 'The Drowned Rose', the ghosts of dead lovers, still in love with the things of this world, mix with the living, while 'Sealskin' explored the relationship between legend, art and life. All stories are richly entertaining, poignant and moving, their universal themes realized in the context of their unique island setting. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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