Sunset Song

the scottish dialect runs pretty fast on the tongue, or well just the mind too. ;)i could not stop reading it once i began.....the action never slows down, even the descriptions are such a design!this has to be one of the best novels to exist.

I ordered and read this book after watching the movie adaptation. The author brings forth Scottish culture and values pre-WWI. Chris, the central character, is well-developed and constantly evolving toward a deeper understanding of self. The author seems able to take the reader into the world of Chris, her understandings, frustrations, hopes and experiences.An appendix is provided for people and places of the time.A glossary is provided for Scottish words.I read the book in about a week. It was a very pleasurable experience.

Sunset Song is a remarkable novel by the little known Scottish writer from the early twentieth century, Lewis Grassic Gibbon. In a sweeping prologue covering several centuries he writes a stream of consciousness history of the land in central Scotland that will become the home of his main character, a farm girl of extraordinary resilience. Much use is made of the Scots dialect to give authenticity to the dialogue of the characters and their strong connection to the land. Though largely unknown abroad, this novel and its two sequels are well known in Scotland, highly regarded and have been made into stage plays and films. The author died in his early thirties. An outstanding achievement!

Envie de lire le livre après avoir vu le film. Je ne connaissais pas cet auteur et ce fut une bien agréable découverte. Livre d'une grande sensibilité ,personnages attachants, descriptions convaincantes. On le ferme à regrets.

The story of the lives of scottish crofters before and around the second world war, this is a gorgeously written and moving book, brimming with closely-observed imagery and a subtlety of human character that is beautifully woven into the tales of everyday life.There are complaints in other reviews that the book is dense and hard to get into, and the first several chapters (it's extremely obvious when they end) certainly ARE a little random, for they set the scene of cast and landscape within which the remainder of the story takes place. The other potential obstacle is the language - if you are unable to accept the Scots vernacular and roll with some local, dialect words, then I guess it might stick. We're definitely not talking Irvine Welsh here, mind, but, certainly as I found it, a beautifully lyrical turn of phrase with some specialist and Scots vocabulary that, personally, I feel we probably miss in today's world.If you enjoyed Cider With Rosie or any of the Lillian Beckwith books then you'll very likely enjoy this too. I certainly did.

Brilliant book - very moving - would recommendNO GLOSSARY - NO APPENDIX - instead a random thesis on Light and Colour but students from Hull and Salford .....will be asking for a complete copy