"Young Chris Guthrie comes of age in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, her duty to her family and her love of books, until the First World War begins and the landscape around her changes dramatically. The first novel in Gibbon's classic trilogy A Scots Quair, Sunset Song marks the emotional and political changes that history and the coming of industrialization brings to Chris and the small farming community to which she belongs. Gibbon's book blends Scots and English into an intense evocation of Scottish life in the early twentieth century." "In her introduction, Ali Smith discusses the language and tone of Sunset Song and the impact the book has had on modern literature. This edition also includes a chronology, maps, glossary, further reading and notes."--BOOK JACKET.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-û1935) is the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell, one of the outstanding figures in Scottish literature.
Ali Smith is the author of Hotel World, which was short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize, and The Accidental, winner of the 2005 Whitbread Novel of the Year.
William K. Malcolm is a director of the Grassic Gibbon Centre.