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Lädt ... Sun's Net (1976)von George Mackay Brown
  
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This is a bewitching and atmospheric collection of short stories celebrating life and love: the world ripens as a baby stirs in its mother's womb; a soldier captured at Bannockburn sees the daughter of his jailor bathing and falls in love; two ghosts become reconciled with death; and, an eighteenth-century tale of piracy and treachery. George Mackay Brown's distinctive voice has a clarity and resonance that blends the magical with the mundane, and the present with the past. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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"These superbly evocative stories by George Mackay Brown, woven around the Orkneys, range widely in time and theme: a modern Nativity; a strange and chequered romance, after Bannockburn, between an English prisoner of war and the daughter of his Scottish captor; eighteenth century piracy; a chilling account of pacts with the devil; and in 'Soldier from the wars returning' a ghost returns home to find that life is continuing without him - and learns resignation.
The stories are characterized by a potent mingling of past and present, legend and reality, and of the sacred and the everyday - the ancient underlying rhythms of a people's spiritual heritage." - jacket notes from the Quartet edition, 1978. (