✍ Eileen Janket
📂 Fiction
📅 2016
🌐 German
⚖ 170 KB
✦ LIBER ✦
Sputnik Caledonia
✍ Scribed by Andrew Crumey
- Publisher
- Dedalus
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 287 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Sputnik Caledonia was awarded the prestigious Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award and was shortlisted for The James Tait Black Prize and The Scottish Book of the Year Award.
Robbie Coyle is an imaginative kid. He wants so badly to become Scotland's first cosmonaut that he tries to teach himself Russian and trains for space exploration in the cupboard under the sink. But the eplaces to which his fantasies later take him is far from the safety of his suburban childhood. In a communist state, in a closed bleak town, the mysterious Red Star heralds his discovery of cruelty and of love, and the possibility that the most passionate of dreams may only be a chimera...
'This a surprisingly moving novel about the impersonal forces - be they political, quantum, temporal or otherwise - that can threaten or shatter the bonds of love, and of family life. Never has astrophysics seemed so touching and funny.' Sinclair McKay in The Daily Telegraph
'a stimulating read, full of...
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