kmccook writes “my earlier submission on this was rejected and I didn’t save it…but surely this is interesting! I mean it is THE absolute favorite Scottish book in the history of the world and it is on crofting!
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THE classic 20th-century novel, Sunset Song, has been voted Scotland’s favourite book, in a new poll announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel, the first of the trilogy A Scots Quair, won almost a tenth of the 5000 votes, which were submitted by e-mail and text message.
A staple of school reading lists, it recounts the difficult life story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman growing up in a repressive farming community in the northeast of Scotland at the start of the 20th century.
Published in 1932 and written in Scots, it deals with issues such as the effects of the first world war, modernisation in traditional family communities, and the nature of the changing national identity. It also raised eyebrows when it first came out, with its realistic treatment of sex and childbirth, and sometimes brutal portrayal of family life.
http://www.sundayherald.com/51500“
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