by James Leslie Mitchell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841957562
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«Sunset Song» is the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell, published by Canongate Books in paperback (294 pages, in English).
Chris Guthrie, a young woman from a rural Scottish community, lives divided between her love for her land and the harshness of agricultural work. The novel follows her life as the First World War and economic changes transform the landscape and traditions of the countryside, with lyrical prose that evokes the passage of time.
First instalment of the trilogy A Scots Quair; originally published in 1932. This copy corresponds to the 2006 paperback edition from Canongate Books.
Recommended for readers of classics and Scottish historical fiction, especially those who enjoy portrayals of rural communities and twentieth-century social change.
James Leslie Mitchell, known by the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was a Scottish writer. He was best known for A Scots Quair, a trilogy set in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century, of which all three parts have been serialised on BBC television.
