Description
Bestowed at birth with two gifts, an ivory flute and a bag of silver and gold coins, a young girl wanders through time.
She is destined to pursue the dragon of war and before he consumes the world in flames, subdue him not with violence but music. Moving across the battlefields from East to West, the girl bears witness to the suffering and brutality of war throughout history ...
About the Author
George Mackay Brown (1921-96) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished and original writers. His lifelong inspiration and birthplace, Stromness in Orkney, moulded his view of the world, though he studied in Edinburgh and later at Newbattle Abbey College. In 1941 he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and lived an increasingly reclusive life in Stromness, but he produced a regular stream of publications from 1954 onwards. These included A Calendar of Love (1967), A Time to Keep (1969), Greenvoe (1972), Hawkfall (1974), and, notably, the novel Beside the Ocean of Time (1994), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Book of the Year.
Book Information
ISBN 9781846975073
Author George Mackay Brown
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Publisher Birlinn General
Weight(grams) 288g
Dimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 23mm
