Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg
The atmospheric and beautifully written story of a young woman who marries a minister and goes with him to the remote island of St Kilda in hopes of converting the islanders to Christianity in the early nineteenth century.
'Island of Wings captures a world that disappears in the act of description, and the love, so inescapable and elusive, of the outsiders who try to tame itWith scrupulous attention to place, history and the natural world, it tells a story washed by a clean and lovely kind of sorrow' Anne Enright. 'A beautiful story of love and loss, precise, subtle, spiritually alive' Andrew O'Hagan. 'This lovely, haunting novel evokes the rough beauty of St Kilda ... A story of faith and love' The Times. 'Stunning' Guardian. 'Her literary achievement is astonishing ... A superb book' Scotsman.
Karin Altenberg was born in Sweden and moved to Britain to study in 1996. She holds a PhD in Archaeology. Her first, bestselling novel, Island of Wings, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857382320 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857382322 |
| Title | Island of Wings |
| Author | Karin Altenberg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 |
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