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Country Great Britain Publication date 1994 ISBN 1-896209-12-2 Originally published 1994 Page count 217 Publisher John Murray | 4.2/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 217 OCLC 31767769 Genre Novel Nominations Booker Prize | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) is a novel by Scottish writer George Mackay Brown. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society. The plot follows Thorfinn Ragnarson from Norday in the Orkney Islands of the 1930s. The son of a tenant farmer, he regularly daydreams about historical fantasies. After foreseeing his own future, he begins to see a correlation between history, daydreaming and fate.
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