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A review by nearit
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
A poetic novel in the Orkney dialect, with English proseglosstranslation that repulses the reader, directing them back to the poetry time and again.
The plot is science fiction: homecomings and attempted reinventions on a space-borne community that fishes for light. The plot is centrifugal, a great machine designed to mix up your sense of where attention lies. The dual languages serve the same purpose: the line "I doot they'll be needan fock" hits my ear differently from the English equivalent, "I expect they will need people".
When you first clock this stuff you feel clever. When the central (???) romance climaxes in conflict between how two characters from different places hearsay what's going on, you realise you weren't the sharp one just as your fingers start to bleed.
The plot is science fiction: homecomings and attempted reinventions on a space-borne community that fishes for light. The plot is centrifugal, a great machine designed to mix up your sense of where attention lies. The dual languages serve the same purpose: the line "I doot they'll be needan fock" hits my ear differently from the English equivalent, "I expect they will need people".
When you first clock this stuff you feel clever. When the central (???) romance climaxes in conflict between how two characters from different places hearsay what's going on, you realise you weren't the sharp one just as your fingers start to bleed.