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Burial rites : a novel / Hannah Kent.
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 ... BURIAL RITES evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place-- provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780316243919 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 322 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition: First North American Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
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| Subject: | Women murderers > Fiction. Iceland > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. |
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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.
