![]() ![]() Although the archaeological record for the Mesolithic era is minimal, one event known to have occurred in the period was a tsunami which struck around 6150 BC. They are here tested by emotional extremes.Įmploying her considerable skills as a historical novelist, Elphinstone imagines the lives of the hunter-gatherers who thrived in the period from the end of the Ice Age until the adoption of agriculture. In her short stories, poetry and eight novels, which include The Sea Road, Hy Brasil and Voyageurs, Elphinstone has pushed her characters to the geographical and temporal peripheries: they have inhabited islands and frontiers, and the far reaches of history in the Stone Age. In vacillating first-person narratives, the effects of this loss are chronicled as they ripple through the lives of his mother, sisters, brother-in-laws, nieces, cousins and aunts. The character whose absent presence exerts the greatest force is Bakar, who vanishes while out hunting. ![]() Loss is the driving force behind the narrative of Margaret Elphinstone's ambitious new novel. ![]()
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