Burial Rites: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Rilegato

Kent, Hannah

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ISBN 10: 1447233166 ISBN 13: 9781447233169

Casa editrice: Picador, 2013

Riassunto

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD. In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover. Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the family avoid contact with Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her. As the year progresses and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes's story begins to emerge and with it the family's terrible realization that all is not as they had assumed. Based on actual events, Burial Rites is an astonishing and moving novel about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we're told. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, in which every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others? Burial Rites is perfect for fans of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan.

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Recensione

"Burial Rites is an accomplished gem, its prose as crisp and sparkling as its northern setting." Geraldine Brooks, author of Year of Wonders

‘[An] astonishing first novel’ Instyle

‘A compelling read, heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure." Anne Berry, author of The Hungry Ghosts

"Hannah Kent's gorgeous and haunting Burial Rites will touch your heart." Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat

"So gripping I wanted to rush through the pages, but so beautifully written I wanted to linger over every sentence. Hannah Kent's debut novel is outstanding." Madeline Miller, Orange Prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles

"Hannah Kent has crafted a genre all her own. Burial Rites is both a compelling thriller and a profound meditation on a mythic landscape." Annabel Lyon, author of The Golden Mean

"Spell-binding and moving, it's the kind of novel that gets under your skin, moves your blood, your heart. A bravura debut." Megan Abbott, author of The End of Everything and Dare Me

"With language flickering, sparkling and flashing like the northern lights....A magical exercise in artful literary fiction." --Kirkus starred review

"the debut novel that everyone is talking about."
--The Guardian

Descrizione del libro

'This compelling, ripped-from-real-life tale reminds me of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace' Karin Slaughter, best-selling author of Kisscut

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1447233166
• ISBN 13: 9781447233169
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 378
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile