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The Island of the Women
George Mackay Brown
出版
Polygon
, 2006
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Small Town & Rural
ISBN
1904598900
9781904598909
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VvkXAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"The Island of the Women" is George Mackay Brown's posthumously published collection of short stories, released in 1998, two years after the author's death. Like his previous collections, "A Time to Keep" and "A Calendar of Love", this volume explores Brown's concerns with history, spirituality, legend and storytelling. In the title story, Brown uses the famous Orcadian myth of the selkie, the seal-man. The story "Poet and Prince: A Fable", explores the role of the writer in society, a tale which begins in an unknown European state and concludes on Brown's beloved island.