Burial Rites

Author: Hannah Kent

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  • : 9781742612829
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  • : February 2013
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  • : May 2013
  • : January 2017
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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 Agnes' 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, Agnes' 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 didn't 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 Iceland's 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?

Awards

Winner of Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists 2014 and ABIA & Booktopia People's Choice Awards: Fiction Book of the Year 2014 and Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Awards: Christina Stead Award 2014 and ABIA Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2014 and Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2014 and Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2014 and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014. Shortlisted for Stella Prize 2014 and Guardian First Book Award 2013.

Author description

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 In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award.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.