Burial Rites

Kent Hannah

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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 338 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Based On A True Story

Publishers Description: In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait out the time leading to her execution on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderess in their midst, the family avoids speaking with Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agness spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her, as he attempts to salvage her soul. As the summer months fall away to winter and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agness ill-fated tale of longing and betrayal begins to emerge. And as the days to her execution draw closer, the question burns: did she or didnt she 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 Icelands formidable landscape, where 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

ISBN: 9781742612829

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