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Aug 29, 2013 · Based on a true story, Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about personal freedom: who we are seen to be versus who we believe ourselves to be, and the ways in which we will risk everything for love. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, where every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can ...
Sep 10, 2013 · Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a fiction novel based on fact about the last woman to be executed in Iceland. After a lengthy time used for appeals, she was executed in 1828. There are no real surprises in the book as the case and result are a matter of historical record.
Apr 1, 2014 · Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles "Hannah Kent's BURIAL RITES shows how a seemingly simple tale-a murder, a family, a remote landscape-can prove mythic in scale in the right hands. Spell-binding and moving, it's the kind of novel that gets under your skin, moves your blood, your heart.
Based on a true story, Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about personal freedom: who we are seen to be versus who we believe ourselves to be, and the ways in which we will risk everything for love.
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BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick! Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who is charged with the brutal murder of her former master. Iceland, 1829 – Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the murder of her lover.
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May 1, 2013 · 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...
"Hannah Kent's BURIAL RITES shows how a seemingly simple tale-a murder, a family, a remote landscape-can prove mythic in scale in the right hands. Spell-binding and moving, it's the kind of novel that gets under your skin, moves your blood, your heart.
Sep 27, 2013 · Sept. 27, 2013. In 1828, an Icelandic servant named Agnes Magnusdottir was convicted of killing her employer and another man, then burning their bodies. Pending ratification of her death...
Burial Rites. Hannah Kent. Little, Brown, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-24391-9. Kent’s debut delves deep into Scandinavian history, not to mention matters of storytelling, guilt, and silence....
Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites tells a fictional account of the story of Agnes Magnúsdottir, the last person executed in Iceland (in 1830). As the story begins, Agnes has already been convicted of the murders of Natan Ketilsson and Pétur Jónsson and condemned to death for the crime, along with her coconspirators Fridrik Sigurdsson and Sigga ...
