Burial Rites : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from jolerie

At first I did not know why these people stood about, men and women alike, each still and staring at me in silence. Then I understood that it was not me they stared at. I understood that these people did not see me. I was two dead men. I was a burning farm. I was a knife. I was blood. Pg. 36 On a...

from rainpebble

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent; (5+*) This is an amazing historical novel. I will be remembering this one for a long time. The story is so heartbreaking that I wish it wasn't true. The writing is beautiful and just everything about this book is wonderful except for the horror of the truth. The book ...

from RobinDawson

What a terrific book! How does a young Australian author write so convincingly about rural Iceland in the early 1800's? The novel is based on an actual historical fact - the execution of Agnes Magnusdottir, accused of murdering two men. After her sentencing Agnes is billeted into the family of a ...

from andersongs

Hannah Kent has created a tragic yet beautiful masterpiece in the telling of this story, which reminds me not only of the great sagas of the Icelandic tradition, but dark and brooding Norse poetry, as well as vintage Laxness. Kent has captured the essence of a wintry 19th century Iceland in a jar...

from whitreidtan

Lizzie Borden, Grace Marks, Agnes Magnusdottir. Three women, three horrendous murders that capture the public's imagination. Lizzie Borden is probably best known here in the US. Grace Marks's crime was fictionalized in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. And now Hannah Kent has introduced us to Agnes ...