Having purchased an e-novel previously and been sorely disappointed, I had my doubts about this one.
This book centres around the real life story of a Church minister, Neil McKenzie, who served on the island in the 1830s-40s, attempting to convert the "uncivilised" inhabitants to the unbending Christianity of the Scottish Kirk. After a slowish start (my fault, I'm impatient) it gradually pulled me in.
So, with this high praise from noteworthy authors, and never having read a novel by Altenberg, I was intrigued.
Based on fact, & from other books I have read about St. Kilda, seemingly accurate, it paints an extremely vivid picture of the hard life endured every day, by all of all those living on this remote island. In my mind there is no higher praise than that.
My Around the World challenge which I can knock Scotland off my list because this book takes place on the the island of St. Kilda which is off the coast of Scotland. But on the front is a recommendation by Anne Enright, who wrote the lush and, frankly, eye-brow-raising The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002). I picked this book because the New Hebrides Islands were an area that I had never explored before, which intrigued me.
In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. But it´s through Lizzie, the reverend´s wife we get to know the Island and those who lived there under extreme conditions.
Historical fact combines with fiction in the story of Rev. That is in here. Karin Altenberg writes with a facility for imparting a vivid knowledge of the described surroundings. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The reader finds out, not so much during the novel as towards the end, what the haunting is that drives the young evangelical minister from the Church of Scotland to the islands, and again, off the islands. For some time I have been fascinated by the St-Kilda archipelago, particularly thanks to the album 'Hirta Songs' by Scottish folk singer Alasdair Roberts, and for many years I have been a massive fan of Scotland in general. I was attracted to this novel as it concerned one of the most intriguing and remote, formerly inhabited islands, St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides, with which I have been interested for some years.
However, the islanders themselves are always depicted through the McKenzies' eyes, so we never get to see them from the inside, so it is a passive perception of their way of life. The novel includes: death, cruelty, selfishness, obsession, babies, marriage, squalor, sanity and insanity, and more. July, 1830. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Historical Fiction, richly imagined and revealed characters, incredible decriptions, a grand adventure brought to light,. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong. They just let things go down whatever path things wanted to go down, which in a marriage inevitably means growing apart and not understanding each other.
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by House of Anansi Press It´s a very fascinating and well told story.
I think the author did hIt was really interesting to read a novel that played on the island of St. Kilda. Although Lizzie doesn't speak Gaelic , she comes to understand them better than her husband whose mission is to change them . The minister is a religiously driven, guilt-ridden soul whose wife bears the brunt of his calling and suffers isolation from her inability to speak Gaelic.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2013
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