Memory and Straw

Angus Peter Campbell

ISBN 10: 1912147416 / ISBN 13: 9781912147410

Published by Luath Press Ltd., 2018

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory and Straw
• Publisher: Luath Press Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912147416
• ISBN 13: 9781912147410
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 260 grams

About this title

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 2017 SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA face is nothing without its history.Gavin and Emma live in Manhattan. She’s a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence. He’s good at his job. Scarily good. He’s researching human features to make more realistic mask-bots – non-human ‘carers’ for elderly people. When his enquiry turns personal he’s forced to ask whether his own life is an artificial mask.Delving into family stories and his roots in the Highlands of Scotland, he embarks on a quest to discover his own true face, ‘uniquely sprung from all the faces that had been’.He returns to England to look after his Grampa. Travels. Reads old documents. Visits ruins. Borrows, plagiarises and invents.But when Emma tells him his proper work is to make a story out of glass and steel, not memory and straw, which path will he choose? What’s the best story he can give her?A novel about the struggle for freedom and personal identity; what it means to be human. It fuses the glass and steel of our increasingly controlled algorithmic world with the memory and straw of our forebears’ world controlled by traditions and taboos, the seasons and the elements.

About the Author

Angus Peter Campbell (Aonghas Padraig Caimbeul) is an awardwinning novelist and poet from the island of South Uist. His novel An Oidhche Mus Do Sheol Sinn was voted into the Top Ten Best-Ever Books from Scotland in the Orange/List Awards in 2005 and his poetry collection Aibisidh won the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year award in 2012.