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Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) is a novel by Scottish writer George Mackay Brown. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society. The plot follows Thorfinn Ragnarson from Norday in the Orkney Islands of the 1930s. The son of a tenant farmer, he regularly daydreams about historical fantasies. After foreseeing his own future, he begins to see a correlation between history, daydreaming and fate. (en) Lungo l'oceano del tempo (Beside the Ocean of Time) è un romanzo di George Mackay Brown del 1994. Il romanzo è stato finalista al Booker Prize del 1994 e premiato come miglior libro scozzese dell'anno dalla Saltire Society. (it) Beside the Ocean of Time is een roman van uit 1994. Het boek werd uitgegeven door en genomineerd voor de Booker Prize. De riep het werk uit tot boek van het jaar. Het was Browns laatste roman. In Beside the Ocean of Time gebruikt Brown een associatieve, niet chronologische vertelstijl, waarin hij het fictieve Orkneyeiland Norday als metafoor gebruikt voor de vergankelijkheid van culturen en gemeenschappen, naast het eeuwige voortbestaan van het leven zelf. Hij verweeft hierbij geschiedenis met folklore en gebruikt Orcadische dialectwoorden. (nl) |
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Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) is a novel by Scottish writer George Mackay Brown. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society. The plot follows Thorfinn Ragnarson from Norday in the Orkney Islands of the 1930s. The son of a tenant farmer, he regularly daydreams about historical fantasies. After foreseeing his own future, he begins to see a correlation between history, daydreaming and fate. (en) Lungo l'oceano del tempo (Beside the Ocean of Time) è un romanzo di George Mackay Brown del 1994. Il romanzo è stato finalista al Booker Prize del 1994 e premiato come miglior libro scozzese dell'anno dalla Saltire Society. (it) Beside the Ocean of Time is een roman van uit 1994. Het boek werd uitgegeven door en genomineerd voor de Booker Prize. De riep het werk uit tot boek van het jaar. Het was Browns laatste roman. In Beside the Ocean of Time gebruikt Brown een associatieve, niet chronologische vertelstijl, waarin hij het fictieve Orkneyeiland Norday als metafoor gebruikt voor de vergankelijkheid van culturen en gemeenschappen, naast het eeuwige voortbestaan van het leven zelf. Hij verweeft hierbij geschiedenis met folklore en gebruikt Orcadische dialectwoorden. (nl) |
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