Burial Rites

Awards:   Commended for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2014 Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Debut Author) 2014 Commended for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2013
Author:   Hannah Kent
Publisher:   Little Brown and Company
ISBN:  

9780316243919


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   10 September 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Awards

  • Commended for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2014
  • Commended for Indies Choice Book Awards (Debut Author) 2014
  • Commended for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015
  • Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2013

Overview

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?

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Author:   Hannah Kent
Publisher:   Little Brown and Company
Imprint:   Little Brown and Company
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780316243919


ISBN 10:   0316243914
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   10 September 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Kent adds such vivid and creative depth to authentic figures that readers seemingly feel the plot becoming a part of the true history. --Kacy Muir, Wilkes-Barre Times Leader


In the company of works by Hilary Mantel, Susan Vreeland, and Rose Tremain, this compulsively readable novel entertains while illuminating a significant but little-known true story. Highly recommended. --Barbara Love, Library Journal (Starred Review)


A magical exercise in artful literary fiction.... With language flickering, sparkling and flashing like the northern lights.... Beautiful are Kent's descriptions of the interminable summer light, the ever-present snow and ice and cold of winter's gloomy darkness, the mountains, sea and valleys where sustenance is blood-rung from sheep. -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)


Author Information

Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. Her first novel, Burial Rites, has been translated into nearly thirty languages and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), the Guardian First Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Hannah is also the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. The Good People is her second novel.

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