EAN: 9780141188409

SUNSET SONG - LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON TASCHENBUCH

The achingly beautiful Scottish novel now adapted as an acclaimed feature film directed by
Terence Davies (The House of Mirth  The Deep Blue Sea)  Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life
in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland  torn between her passion for the land  duty to her
family and her love of books. When her mother  broken by repeated childbirths  takes her own
life and poisons her two youngest children  Chris is left with her father to run the farm on
her own. Soon she is alone  and for the first time can choose how to spend her life. But as the
First World War begins  everything changes  and the young men leave Scotland for battle. The
first in Gibbon's classic trilogy A Scot's Quair  Sunset Song is infused with local vernacular
and innovatively blends Scots and English in an intense description of Scottish life in the
early twentieth century.  For more than seventy years  Penguin has been the leading publisher
of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1 700 titles  Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres
and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by
introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors  as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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