Ebook {Epub PDF} Hame by Annalena McAfee

Halfway through Annalena McAfee’s second novel Hame (the Scots word for home and belonging), the narrator riffs on John Donne: “No man is an island — but he told only half the story; no island is an island either.”. In this long but light-hearted.  · Print. At the heart of McAfee’s latest novel is poet Grigor McWatt, the English-hating, otter-owning Scottish nationalist and the bard of Fascaray, a remote Hebridean island dense with Caledonian lore. “A palimpsest of Scottishness,” writes The Guardian. Though she lives in London with her husband (writer Ian McEwan), McAfee spoke to BHT while visiting the land of her novel Hame, .  · We talk about the concept of home with Annalena McAfee, author of Hame; we walk the length of Hadrian's Wall with Rory Stewart, author of The Marches, and discuss the whole notion of borders; and finally we join Denise Mina on a tour of Glasgow's murky past as she tells us more about the real crime behind her latest novel, The Long Drop.

Hame. Annalena McAfee. Knopf, $ (p) ISBN McAfee's long novel about a small island is at once fascinating and frustrating. It centers on Grigor McWatt, a fictional. ANNALENA MCAFEE, a writer and journalist, was the founding editor of The Guardian's literary supplement, the Guardian Review. She joined the paper in from the Financial Times, where she was Arts and Books www.doorway.ru to that she worked at the London Evening Standard as drama critic and arts editor.. In , she edited a collection of literary profiles from The Guardian titled Lives and. Authors: McAfee, Annalena. Binding: Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Weight: Gms. SKU:

Halfway through Annalena McAfee’s second novel Hame (the Scots word for home and belonging), the narrator riffs on John Donne: “No man is an island — but he told only half the story; no island is an island either.”. In this long but light-hearted. Hame by Annalena McAfee is a very unique and lengthy novel full of very diverse types of writing. “Hame” means “home” in Scots. The novel is full of very diverse types of writing that would have required an immense amount of time and effort of write and meld together. "Hame is a sweet and quaint novel, full of just-in-time revelations and obvious fondness." - Stuart Kelly, The Guardian "Annalena's novel Hame is madly, wildly, almost extravagantly inventive, as if each passing page is seeking to outdo the previous one. This is story-telling of the highest ingenuity, brimming with whimsy, wit, erudition, and beautiful sentences.