Animal Fairm [Animal Farm in Scots]
Won the Scots Book o the Year at the Scottish Language Awards 2023.
AW ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MAIR EQUAL THAN ITHERS
It didnae seem unco when Napoleon wis seen daunderin aboot the fairmhoose gairden wi a pipe in his mooth...
Frae the instant o its first publication ower seeventy year syne, Animal Fairm, in mony weys, has come tae be oor socio-political urtext – oor wan-singer-wan-sang, oor collective pairty piece, the script we’re doomed tae keep repeatin...
George Orwell’s faur-kent novel Animal Fairm, yin o Time magazine’s 100 brawest English-leid novels o aw time, has been translatit intae Scots for the verra first time by Thomas Clark.
When the animals o Manor Fairm cast aff thirldom an tak control frae Mr Jones, they hae howps for a life o freedom an equality. But when the pigs Napoleon and Snawbaw rise tae pouer, the ither animals find oot that they’re mebbe no aw as equal as they’d aince thocht. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as bein ‘the history o a revolution that went wrang’, this buik is as relevant noo – if no mair sae – as when it wis first set oot.
| Weight | 0.140000 |
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| ISBN13/Barcode | 9781804250396 |
| ISBN10 | 1804250392 |
| Author | George Orwell [Translator Thomas Clark] |
| Binding | Paperback |
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| Date Published | 30th January 2023 |
| Pages | 112 |
| Publisher | Luath Press |
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Won the Scots Book o the Year at the Scottish Language Awards 2023.
About the Book:
AW ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MAIR EQUAL THAN ITHERS
It didnae seem unco when Napoleon wis seen daunderin aboot the fairmhoose gairden wi a pipe in his mooth...
Frae the instant o its first publication ower seeventy year syne, Animal Fairm, in mony weys, has come tae be oor socio-political urtext – oor wan-singer-wan-sang, oor collective pairty piece, the script we’re doomed tae keep repeatin...
George Orwell’s faur-kent novel Animal Fairm, yin o Time magazine’s 100 brawest English-leid novels o aw time, has been translatit intae Scots for the verra first time by Thomas Clark.
When the animals o Manor Fairm cast aff thirldom an tak control frae Mr Jones, they hae howps for a life o freedom an equality. But when the pigs Napoleon and Snawbaw rise tae pouer, the ither animals find oot that they’re mebbe no aw as equal as they’d aince thocht. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as bein ‘the history o a revolution that went wrang’, this buik is as relevant noo – if no mair sae – as when it wis first set oot.
Reviews:
This is a modern Scots masterpiece. ASHLEY DOUGLAS, Writer and translator
Bi ane o the skeeliest makars scrievin in Scots the day. BILLY KAY, Writer
[Animal Fairm] thus allows a large segment of the population of Scotland to appreciate Orwell's classic in a language that means much to them. It should also serve as a very useful primer for others whose acquaintance with the language is more passing but who want to gain a better understanding of it. UNDISCOVERED SCOTLAND
The Note and his Introduction… aside from his wry, self-deprecating humour, they made me keen to learn more about the language, to learn to read it better, not just read his translation. IAN CHADWICK