by George Mackay Brown · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140039788
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«Greenvoe» is the novel by George Mackay Brown, published by Penguin in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The novel recreates a week in the life of Greenvoe, a community on the island of Hellya, in the Orkneys. Operation Black Star, a sinister military-industrial project, threatens their way of life. It mixes prose and poetry, with characters such as the Marxist fisherman The Skarf, the boatman Ivan Westray, the pious Samuel Whaness and the maternal Alice Voar.
First novel by George Mackay Brown, subtitled 'One Summer Week in the Orkney Community of Greenvoe'. 1976 edition.
For readers of literary fiction and narrative set in the Scottish islands, with a poetic prose that mixes social realism and lyricism.
