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Deep Wheel Orcadia : A Novel by Harry Josephine Giles (2021, Uk-Trade Paper)

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Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science fiction verse novel written in the Orkney dialect.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPan Macmillan

ISBN-101529066603

ISBN-139781529066609

eBay Product ID (ePID)3050100596

Product Key Features

Book TitleDeep Wheel Orcadia : a Novel

Number of Pages80 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2021

GenreFiction

AuthorHarry Josephine Giles

FormatUk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-363197

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"A symphony o yotuns, peedie suns and langships tae Mars, in Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles hauds the starns in the loof o thier haun, terraformin new warlds in Scots. (A symphony of giants, miniature suns and longships to Mars, in Deep Wheel Orcadia Harry Josephine Giles holds the stars in the palm of their hand, terraforming new worlds in Scots.) " --Matthew Fitt " Deep Wheel Orcadia is a mysterious and moving novel in verse about finding home in the farthest reaches. Giles lifts us to new worlds, in space and in language, we could never have imagined. A singular and numinous work" --Morgan M Page, author of One From the Vaults "I can't remember the last time I was this beguiled, this engrossed and this inspired by a book. It's like nothing else I've ever read. It was a joy to feel so entranced by the possibilities and complexities of each and every word. Harry Josephine Giles is a true original and a vital voice - don't miss this." --Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers, A symphony o yotuns, peedie suns and langships tae Mars, in Deep Wheel Arcadia Harry Josephine Giles hauds the starns in the loof o his haun, terraformin new warlds in Scots. (A symphony of giants, miniature suns and longships to Mars, in DWC HJG holds the stars in the palm of his hand, terraforming new worlds in Scots.)

Dewey Decimal823.92

Edition DescriptionMultilanguage edition

SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2022 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire - all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years.Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as an accomplished poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space., Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire - all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space., Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year, Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it's also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over fifty years.

LC Classification NumberPR6107.I4258