Burial rites : a novel / Hannah Kent.
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TextPublication details: New York : Back Bay Books, 2014, ©2013.Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. edDescription: 322, 14 pages : map ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316243926
- 0316243922
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Main Library | Fiction | Kent, Hannah | Available | 33111008508091 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard.
Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
Originally published: Australia : Picador, 2013. Originally published in hardcover in North America by Little, Brown, 2013. Reprinted in paperback in 2014 with a Reading Group Guide.
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this story evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place. Here the author brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard. But will their new knowledge be enough to save Agnes? -- Provided by publisher.