Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Sunset Song

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Gerda Stevenson

Narrator: Full Cast, Lesley Hart

Unabridged: 1 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2013


Synopsis

Gerda Stevenson's dramatisation of the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, set in north-east Scotland before and during the First World War. Episode 1: Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her ambition to become a teacher. As Chris' domineering father struggles with the harshness of the land, her mother's fear of childbirth leads her to despair. A full cast dramatisation. Directed by David Ian Neville.Episode 2: After her father's death, Chris is determined to stay and work the farm alone if need be. Joined by Ewan Tavendale in marriage and on the farm, Chris gives birth to a son. But the outbreak of the First World War brings devastating change to her family, the rural landscape and the community. A full cast dramatisation. Directed by David Ian Neville.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magrat on May 09, 2021

Sin duda una de las mejores novelas que he leído este año, una auténtica joya que me ha robado el corazón. La historia de Chris Guthrie y Kinraddie, esa pequeña comunidad de campesinos en Escocia, que deben enfrentarse día tras día a la dura vida del campo pero al mismo tiempo aman y veneran esa tier......more

Goodreads review by Libros Prestados on May 15, 2021

Esta novela consigue ese reto tan difícil que es ir "sobre nada", contar la simple vida de alguien. Más concretamente, contar la existencia de una pequeña aldea (ni siquiera, son cuatro casas) ficticia y que parezca que es muy real y que conoces a tods esos vecinos y vecinas con sus historias, sus m......more

Goodreads review by Andy on September 12, 2022

Well, I finally read this, 25 years after pretending to read it for high school English class (sorry, Mrs Fleming). In fairness, it's just as well, as I know I'd have appreciated it far less as a gawky, fourteen-year-old geek than I did as... uh, a gawky, geeky thirty-nine-year-old.......more

Goodreads review by MJ on September 24, 2012

Attention Novelists! Test 1 Have you written a dreary middlebrow novel set in a part of India, the Orient, or a sundrenched third-world nation? Is your novel about postcolonial struggles and skirmishes faced by impoverished nations during a specific period in history? Does your novel dwell upon the em......more

Goodreads review by Iris ☾ on June 11, 2021

Lewis Grassic Gibbon, escribió esta primera parte de la Trilogía Escocesa en 1932. Siendo reconocida como una de las obras cumbre de la literatura escocesa del siglo XX, no ha sido hasta este año que hemos podido disfrutar de esta novela traducida al Castellano de la mano de una editorial independie......more