Burial Rites
by Kent, Hannah
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Picador, Sydney, 2016. Reprint. Softcover. Fine Condition. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 338 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2014 and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson and his family, who are horrified and avoid Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her. As the summer months fall away to winter, Agnes's story begins to emerge. And as the days to her execution draw closer, the question burns: did she or didn't she? Based on a true story, Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about freedom and the ways we will risk everything for love. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, and asks: how can one woman endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others? Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Iceland; 19th century; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781743549551. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7970. . 9781743549551
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On Nov 17 2013, CloggieDownunder said:
Burial Rites is the first novel by Australian author, Hannah Kent. In 2003, during an exchange year in Iceland, Hannah Kent became interested with events leading up to the last execution to occur in that country. Thus began ten years of research into Agnes Magnusdottir, beheaded by axe in 1829 for her role in the murder of two sleeping men. Eventually Kent produced a novel in which she aimed to show another side to this condemned woman. This novel won the Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award, and deservedly so. Kent takes the many facts she has uncovered in her extensive research and, along with fictional likelihoods,weaves them into a fascinating tale of love, cruelty, passion and betrayal. Kent fills out the real and fictional characters, giving them a depth that cannot be gleaned from recorded data. A great wealth of interesting facts about early 19th century Iceland is incorporated into the story, giving it a wonderful authenticity. With sparkling prose, Kent evokes both the feel of northern Iceland and emotions of her characters. Gems like “I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the day: the wet mouth of the afternoon was full on my face. My soul blossomed in that brief moment….” and “I had no friends. I didn’t understand the landscape. Only the outlying tongues of rock scarred the perfect kiss of sea and sky – there was no one and nothing else. There was nowhere else to go.” abound. Kent’s mentor for this masterpiece was, very appropriately, Geraldine Brooks: this genre is right up her alley. This is a powerful and moving first novel, and readers will eagerly await Hannah Kent’s next work.
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- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7970
- Title
- Burial Rites
- Author
- Kent, Hannah
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1743549555
- ISBN 13
- 9781743549551
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- BZDB137 iceland, fiction, hannah kent, australian, Fiction; Iceland; 19th century; EAN: 9781743549551 Kent, Hannah Burial Rites
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