by Alistair Mac Leod (Author)
In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, its own history. It is the 1980s by the time our narrator, Alexander MacDonald, tells the story of his family, a thrilling and passionate story that intersects with history: with Culloden, where the clans died, and with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall'.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 0099283921
ISBN 13: 9780099283928
Book Overview: Winner of the International Impac Dublin Literary Award 'A brilliant and haunting novel' Daily Mail