Beside the Ocean of Time

AvGeorge Mackay Brown

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Set in the Orkneys on the fictitious island of Norday, a young poet daydreams the history of the island and its people. He travels back in time to Viking adventures at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.

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Utgivningsdatum:1995-08-07
Mått:129 x 198 x 15 mm
Vikt:160 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:9780006548621
Miljömärkning:Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1994

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George MacKay Brown was born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands in 1921. He studied at Newbattle Abbey under Edwin Muir and read English at Edinburgh University. He has published many books including plays, poems, novels and collections of short stories. Edwin Muir described his work as possessing ‘a strangeness and magic rare anywhere in literature today’.George Mackay Brown has seldom left Orkney since he completed his academic studies, and the imagery and history of the islands has been the inspiration for all his work.His novel Beside the Ocean of Time was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize.