An Nighean Air an Aiseig

‘S docha direach gur e ceist uine, neo tim, a bha sin: nam biodh barrachd uine air a bhith againn, na bhiodh sinn air a dheanamh ‘s a choilionadh comhla. An saoghal a bhiodh sinn air a dhealbh. Nam biodh gradh da-rireabh againn air a cheile, cha bhiodh sinn air dealachadh. B’ e samhradh fada teth a bh’ ann…chunnaic iad a cheile air aiseag, ach bho nach do bhruidhinn iad, tha cianalas is aithreachas a’ gabhail greim. Ann an sgriobhadh alainn ealanta tha An Nighean air an Aiseig gar toirt air ais gu samhraidhean gaoil ann am Muile, an Uibhist is eile. With his insistent, light-footed examinations of human nature, and particularly what it means to be a Gaelic speaker from South Uist, alive at this precise moment, within different heritages and traditions, conflicting and confluent, and transported from a radically different past, Angus Peter Campbell is one of the most important and unmissable writers in Scotland. DR PETER MACKAY