Sgeulachdan an Da Shaoghail Ann an Ceithir Litrichean — Michael Newton

IN GAELIC. Sgeulachdan an Da Shaogail draws liberally from a variety of narrative structures, plot devices, idioms, and folkloric motifs in Gaelic oral tradition, and makes many allusions to a cultural inheritance that was once well known to generations of Gaelic speakers. The story is written as a series of letters from an unnamed source to his foster-brother Roibeart. Each letter recounts an interview with increasingly elderly neighbors who have had memorable encounters with denizens of the Otherworld. These narratives, based on Scottish tales of the supernatural, contain something inexorably compelling about the symbolic Other that allows us to express what is otherwise inexpressible about ourselves and the human condition. The Sandstone Meanmnach Series is aimed at Advanced Gaelic learners as well as accomplished readers.