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Linklater's Scotland
From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20050828
Author:Magnus Linklater
WHEN Kyrill Ivanovich Samarin was 12, years before he would catch, among the scent of textbooks and cologne in a girl's satchel, the distinct odour of dynamite, he demanded that his uncle let him change his second name.
Who wrote that? Fyodor Dostoevsky? Gabriel Garca Mrquez? Louis de Bernieres? Normally the opening lines of a novel give you a clue to its origins. This one is modern, set in the former Soviet Union, and was described by one reviewer as "a truly Russian novel... an exceptional event in English literature."
In fact it is a Scottish book, by a Scottish author, who describes ...
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