Litir A Ameireagaidh

The "Sandstone Meanmnach" series is aimed at Advanced Gaelic learners as well as accomplished readers. Recognising that most readers come from an English language background they open with an introduction from the author that will contextualise and lead into the story. These stories are of novella length and so less daunting to the developing reader of Gaelic. They should serve as an intriguing introduction to longer works such as those published by the Gaelic Book Council under the Ur Sgeul colophon. "Letter from America" tells of the life of Donald John who, in the years after the Great War, leaves Uist to work as a policeman, initially in Glasgow and later in New York. Donald John's feelings and thoughts are very natural and affect most of us: love and hate, marriage and separation, deceit and violence, success and disappointment, good times and bad times. The end of "Letter from America" is a reminder that, 'As a man sows, so he must reap.'