Burial Rites

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 15/04/2013

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The multi-award winning debut bestseller from the author of The Good People, with new novel Devotion out now.


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 on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson and his family, who are horrified and avoid Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her. As the summer months fall away to winter, Agnes's story begins to emerge. And as the days to her execution draw closer, the question burns: did she or didn't she?


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 formidable landscape, and asks: how can one woman endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?


WINNER FOR INDIE AWARDS 2014

WINNER FOR VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD 2014

WINNER FOR FAW CHRISTINA STEAD AWARD 2014

WINNER ABA NIELSEN BOOKDATA BOOKSELLERS' CHOICE AWARD 2014

WINNER FOR ABIA LITERARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014

WINNER FOR SMH BEST YOUNG AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST 2014

WINNER FOR ABIA/BOOKTOPIA PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD 2014

WINNER FOR DAVITT AWARDS DEBUT FICTION 2014

WINNER FOR DAVITT AWARDS READER'S CHOICE 2014

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2013

SHORTLISTED FOR NIB WAVERLEY AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2013

SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2014

SHORTLISTED FOR BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014

SHORTLISTED FOR VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION 2014

SHORTLISTED FOR ALS GOLD MEDAL 2014

SHORTLISTED FOR VOSS LITERARY AWARD 2014

SHORTLISTED FOR NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2014


Praise for Burial Rites


'A story of swirling sagas, poetry ... Holds an exhilaration that borders on the sublime' Sunday Telegraph

'a wonderfully strange and haunting story' The Times


'a debut of rare sophistication and beauty' Observer


'beautiful and compelling' The Guardian


'A gripping tale.' New York Times


'The most talked about Australian debut novel in years.' Australian

ISBN:
9781743287910
9781743287910
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
15-04-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Hannah Kent

Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. As a teenager she travelled to Iceland on a Rotary Exchange, where she first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir.

Hannah is the co-founder and deputy editor of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings, and is completing her PhD at Flinders University. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. Burial Rites is her first novel.

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