Hannah Kent Burial Rites review, recensie en informatie historische IJsland roman van de Australische schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de historische roman Burial Rites van de uit Australië afkomstige schrijfster Hannah Kent die zich Noord-IJsland afspeelt in 1829.
Hannah Kent Burial Rites review en recensie
- “A story of swirling sagas, poetry, bitterness, claustrophobia . . . through the long countdown towards Agnes’s fate, it is Kent’s heart-racing imagery that lingers . . . even the bleakness of Agnes’s end, its gut-churning fear, holds an exhilaration that borders on the sublime.” (
- “A debut of rare sophistication and beauty – a simple but moving story, meticulously researched and hauntingly told.” (Observer)
Burial Rites
- Auteur: Hannah Kent (Australië)
- Soort boek: historische IJsland roman uit 2013, debuutroman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Picador Collection
- Omvang: 384 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de historische IJsland roman van 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 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?
De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel De laatste rituelen is alleen nog tweede hands verkrijgbaar.
Hannah Kent was born in 1985 in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in the Adelaide Hills, as a bit of a solitary child who loved to 
read. After finishing school she attended a course in creative writing course at Flinders University and earned a PhD. She is the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. She is the author of Burial Rites, The Good People, Devotion and Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland.