Publisher's Synopsis
The 2020 Booker Prize - "SHUGGIE BAIN: The little soul has a musical style. It's not melodious, moldy, sophisticated, languid music; Or to be more precise, it's unbalanced. It is difficult, disobedient and tumultuous music, coming from a soul that has met many cuts and more or less calluses, a voice waiting to be released but cannot find the right rhythm it needs. But then... It's a heart-breaking sound. Experiencing means no longer having to try to suppress it." - Translator SHUGGIE BAIN's words delve into every dark corner of Glasgow in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, thereby revealing a moving story about lives struggling in a deadlock situation without seeing the light. . With a narrative that blends tragedy and humour, cruelty and tenderness, compassion and excruciating pain, SHUGGIE BAIN paints a haunting picture of family relationships, social prejudice, and self-awareness, poverty and evil. When people sink to the bottom of misery, they give blindly to love, they reach their limitless limit, they cling madly to pride and hope to aspire to control their destiny.
