Hannah Kent
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| Title | : | Burial Rites |
| Author | : | Hannah Kent |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | September 10th 2013 by Little, Brown and Company |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery |
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A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.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 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.
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?
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| Original Title: | Burial Rites |
| ISBN: | 0316243914 (ISBN13: 9780316243919) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Agnes Magnúsdóttir, Natan Ketilsson, Björn Blöndal, Reverend Jóhann Tómasson, Pétur Jónsson, Fridrik Sigurdsson, Sigrídur Gudmundsdóttir, Steina Jónsdóttir, Lauga Jónsdóttir, Margrét Jónsdóttir, District Officer Jón Jónsson |
| Setting: | Iceland |
| Literary Awards: | Barry Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2014), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2013), Victorian Premier's Literary Award for People's Choice (2014), Davitt Award for Debut Novel (2013), Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction (2014) Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction (2014), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2014), The Stella Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2014), Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for International Author of the Year (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2015), Voss Literary Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2014) |
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The writing was beautiful and as far as novels go this is one of the most atmospheric that I've read, but it just wasn't enough for me to love the book. The story itself is pretty sad (which I'm fine with) but there wasn't really enough going on plot-wise, or character-wise, for me to properly enjoy the book. The intrigue that I felt at the very beginning sort of petered away as the story went on, but I definitely loved the beginning!'I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate.'Poor Agnes! This was a very well told story: evocative descriptions of the landscape, the farmers of Iceland and their tough life style...I have read a lot of historical fiction, but never one set in this time and place, so the details of Icelandic farming in the 1800s were fascinating. Brutal conditions and yet (said from the comfort of my centrally heated home and with my on line food order on its way) there would
"They said I must die. They said that I stole the breath from men, and now they must steal mine. I imagine, then, that we are all candle flames, greasy-bright, fluttering in the darkness and the howl of the wind, and in the stillness of the room I hear footsteps, awful coming footsteps, coming to blow me out and send my life up away from me in a gray wreath of smoke."The words of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, convicted for the murders of two men and awaiting execution in early nineteenth century Iceland,
Outstanding debut novel by Kent. I thought this was wonderfully written and the story captivating. I did not mind the change in voice. I found it enriched the story and was not confusing. This novel is based on a true story set in Iceland. A story of Agnes, a woman charged with the murder (along with 2 other servants) of her former employer. After being imprisoned and beaten she is sent to live with a family while waiting for her execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted
Fredrik Sugurdsson, Sigridur (Sigga) Gudmundsdóttir, and Agnes Magnúsdóttir have been sentenced to death for the murders of Natan Ketilsson and Pétur Jónsson. They are initially imprisoned and then are literally farmed out to families in the surrounding areas to work until such time as their death sentence is to be enacted.Agnes is found guilty of accessory to murder, arson, and conspiracy to murder. She ends up billeted with Jón Jónsson, the District Officer of Vatnsdalur, his wife Margrét, and
I give up!!! DNF at 180 pages.Monkey brain can't handle this. It's far too slow. The writing is nice, and I underlined a lot of parts that I liked, but NOTHING happens except in flashbacks, and even those are slow. Maybe I'll revisit it one day but it's just not the time for me to be reading such dense, slow prose right now
It is very hard to describe the atmosphere of this novel. The coldness, the loneliness, the lives hard lived permeate this book, as the story of Agnes is told. Well researched accounting of the last woman beheaded and the last case of capitol punishment in Iceland in 1830. This narrative follows the last months of her life and is hauntingly and movingly told.The district is hard put to harbor a criminal awaiting death and so Agnes is put in the care of a good Christian farm family. Her only
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