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John of John Bokomslag John of John
Douglas Stuart
roman, Skottland, familj, homosexualitet
Picador.com
2026
400

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry hom to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him.In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.
While Cal wonders if any young men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his sons´s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As lambing season turns to shearing season, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.
This is the heartbreaking story of a young man´s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectations.

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