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This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the twentieth-century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agicultural backwater of the southern-most part of Scotland.

With a loving regard for the land and its people, Barke traces the lives of David and Jean Ramsay who, full of hope, painstakingly uproot themselves and their family in the search for prosperity. Their efforts to retain respect and a decent way of life are thwarted by unemployment in increasingly hostile circumstances, and a harsh environment inevitably leaves its mark.

But a generation emerges to question the authority of an uncaring society and, even as Fascism rages through Europe, a new hope is born.

The Land Of The Leal

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This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of... Read more

    Publisher: Canongate Books
    Publication Date: 01/01/2001
    ISBN13: 9780862411428, 978-0862411428
    ISBN10: 0862411424

    Number of Pages: 636

    Fiction , Classics

    Description

    This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic than to any English counterpart, opens at the turn of the twentieth-century in the extreme poverty of the Rhinns of Galloway, an agicultural backwater of the southern-most part of Scotland.

    With a loving regard for the land and its people, Barke traces the lives of David and Jean Ramsay who, full of hope, painstakingly uproot themselves and their family in the search for prosperity. Their efforts to retain respect and a decent way of life are thwarted by unemployment in increasingly hostile circumstances, and a harsh environment inevitably leaves its mark.

    But a generation emerges to question the authority of an uncaring society and, even as Fascism rages through Europe, a new hope is born.

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