Beside the ocean of time
Brown, George Mackay2025
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In his day-dreams, Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter, relives the history of this island people, travelling back in time to join Viking adventurers at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople, then accompanying a Falstaffian knight to the battle of Bannockburn. Thorfinn wakes to the 20th century and a community whose way of life, steeped in legend and tradition, has remained unchanged for centuries. But as the boy grows up - and falls in love with a vivacious and mysterious stranger - the transforming effect of modern civilization brings momentous and irreversible changes to the island. During the Second World War Thorfinn finds himself in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and it is here that he discovers his gifts as a writer. Long afterwards he returns, now a successful novelist, to a deserted and battle-scarred island.
Main title:
Beside the ocean of time / George Mackay Brown.
Author:
Brown, George Mackay, author
Edition:
New edition.
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2025.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 1994.
ISBN:
9781399827188 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914AF/PBKAFCLA-PBK
LC class:
PR6052.R59
Language:
English
BRN:
4247168