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“Hit wis kynda da promised land in mony wyes, da Happie Laand across da sea. . . .” In the summer of the year of the Millennium, a barefoot stranger comes to the door of the manse for help. But three days later he disappears without trace, leaving a bundle of papers behind. Da Happie Laand weaves the old minister’s attempt to make sense of the mysteries left behind by his ‘lost sheep’—the strange tale of a search for his missing father at midsummer—with an older story relating the fate of a Zetlandic community across the centuries, the tales of those people who emigrated to New Zetland in the South Pacific, and those who satyed behind. to build a new life in the promised land, and those who stayed behind.
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Da Happie Laand, Robert Alan Jamieson
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- Année de publication
- 2011
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- Titre
- Da Happie Laand
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Robert Alan Jamieson
- Éditeur
- Luath Press Ltd
- Publié
- 2011
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 388
- ISBN10
- 1906817863
- ISBN13
- 9781906817862
- Séries
- Description
- “Hit wis kynda da promised land in mony wyes, da Happie Laand across da sea. . . .” In the summer of the year of the Millennium, a barefoot stranger comes to the door of the manse for help. But three days later he disappears without trace, leaving a bundle of papers behind. Da Happie Laand weaves the old minister’s attempt to make sense of the mysteries left behind by his ‘lost sheep’—the strange tale of a search for his missing father at midsummer—with an older story relating the fate of a Zetlandic community across the centuries, the tales of those people who emigrated to New Zetland in the South Pacific, and those who satyed behind. to build a new life in the promised land, and those who stayed behind.