A review by monsterful_alex
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

4.0

The Scots used by Gibbon in this novel is quite hard to peruse at first, but after the first struggles with an English-Scots dictionary, the words become less mysterious and it's quite easy to lose oneself in the lyrical descriptive language of rural Scotland. It is not a particularly exciting novel, it's an ode to the land and its farming people rather than an adventurous saga. Chris is by no means an extraordinary heroine - she has a hard life, she makes some difficult choices and she lives in a very slow-paced, harsh environment. A bildungsroman of sorts, it focuses on her growing up, but it also laments the loss of a particular type of Scotsman- in tune with the land, lost in time and keeper of the songs of yore.