num_pages: 214
description: This is a superb collection of stories, focusing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals, by one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. Through a variety of characters from shipwrecked Scandinavians to an Edinburgh gentleman, George Mackay Brown looks at the impact of new ways of thinking on the traditional way of life of Orkney.
language: English
title: Winter Tales
titlecomplete: Winter Tales
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Scotland
ratings_count: 139
places: Orkney, Scotland
publisher: Polygon