Deep Wheel Orcadia - Winner of the 2022 Arthur C Clarke Award. Ausgezeichnet: The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2022. Mehrsprachige Ausgabe
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| Verlag | Macmillan Publishers International |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 176 |
| Format | 15,3 x 23,3 x 2,1 cm |
| Trade Paperback | |
| Gewicht | 276 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781529066609 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52906660UA |
Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year, Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it's also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over fifty years.
Klappentext:
Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.
Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire - all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailin g from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.
Rezension:
A symphony o yotuns, peedie suns and langships tae Mars, in Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles hauds the starns in the loof o thier haun, terraformin new warlds in Scots. (A symphony of giants, miniature suns and longships to Mars, in Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles holds the stars in the palm of their hand, terraforming new worlds in Scots.) Matthew Fitt
