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Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket of a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find that her boyfriend has committed suicide and is lying dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral, and what she does next is appalling. Moving across a blurred European landscape - from the rural poverty and drunken mayhem of the Scottish port to the Mediterranean rave scene - we experience everything from Morvern's stark, unflinching perspective. She rarely goes anywhere without the Walkman left…
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14 editions · 7 languages- Paperback · English · 2015Vintage · 224 pages · 9781784870102
- Paperback · English · 2002Vintage · 240 pages · 9780099449942
- Paperback · English · 1997Knopf Doubleday · 242 pages · 9780385487412
- Paperback · English · 1996Vintage · 240 pages · 9780099586111
- Paperback · English · 1995Jonathan Cape · 229 pages · 9780224040112
- Hardcover · Russian · 2004Морверн КалларАмфора · 269 pages · 9785942785352
EuropeFictionRave cultureScotsYoung womenLittérature écossaiseFiction, psychologicalScotland, fiction



