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Burial Rites: (Picador Collection)

Burial Rites: (Picador Collection)


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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick


Based on actual events, Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a haunting work of historical fiction, following the final days of a young woman accused of murder in 19th-century Iceland.

'Outstanding' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
'Gripping, intriguing and unique' – Kate Mosse, author of The Burning Chambers


Northern Iceland, 1829.
A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover.
A family forced to take her in.
A priest tasked with absolving her.

But all is not as it seems, and time is running out: winter is coming, and with it the execution date.
Only she can know the truth. This is Agnes's story . . .

'One of the best Scandinavian crime novels I've read' – Independent
'Remarkable' – Sunday Times
'A must-read' – Grazia

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.


** Read Hannah Kent's memoir about Iceland, Always Home, Always Homesick **



About the Author :
Hannah Kent’s first novel, Burial Rites, has been translated into over thirty languages and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), the Guardian First Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In Australia it won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year, amongst others. Her second novel, The Good People, was also translated into many languages and shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. Devotion, her third novel, was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

Review :
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. One of the most gripping, intriguing and unique books I’ve read this year . . . A novel that bristles with beautiful description, that lays bare the harshness of women’s lives of the period and considers the nature of justice So gripping I wanted to rush through the pages, but so beautifully written I wanted to linger over every sentence. Outstanding. A debut of rare sophistication and beauty – a simple but moving story, meticulously researched and hauntingly told. Hannah's rendering of Agnes Magnúsdóttir is as vivid and authentic as Mailer's Gary Gilmore . . . She has resurrected her heroine with grace and skill; her writing style is innately lyrical . . . An amazing book. I was completely engrossed all the way through, and heartbroken at its end. A remarkable achievement . . . Burial Rites will stand comparison with Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang. Gorgeous and haunting, Burial Rites will touch your heart. Haunting . . . startlingly vivid . . . This is a tormented tale of love and betrayal and divided loyalties recounted with heartfelt honesty . . . An exceptional debut. Remarkable . . . extraordinary . . . Burial Rites is thought-provoking and often deeply moving . . . Beautifully written, this is a novel that will draw you in and touch your heart. Agnes will stay with you long after the last page has been turned. Haunting and beautiful Kent is an Australian, but her beautiful first novel has the extraordinary setting of Iceland in the 1820s . . . a wonderfully strange and haunting story. Spell-binding and moving, it’s the kind of novel that gets under your skin, moves your blood, your heart. This compelling, ripped-from-real-life tale reminds me of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Hannah Kent has crafted a genre all her own. Burial Rites is both a compelling thriller and a profound meditation on a mythic landscape. Burial Rites is totally gripping & beautiful and has so much Nordic gloom that you feel frozen reading it. In nineteenth-century Ireland, convicted killer Agnes Magnúsdóttir is sentenced to death for stabbing her lover, but still has the power to change lives. Kent brilliantly recreates a community surviving in an inhospitable climate, and conveys the ineluctable force of one woman's personality on those around her. An outstandingly good debut . . . I found myself spellbound . . . Kent has done a great deal of research and transformed its results into a work of art.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781035038626
  • Publisher: Pan MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Picador
  • Height: 129 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 196 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1035038625
  • Publisher Date: 07 Mar 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Picador Collection
  • Weight: 326 gr


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