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Burial Rites

Burial Rites( )
Author: Kent, Hannah
ISBN:978-1-74351-696-6
Publication Date:Mar 2014
Publisher:Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
Imprint:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $22.99
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Biographical
Fiction / Crime
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13 x 19.7 x 2.2 cm
Book Weight:0.26 Kilograms
Author Biography
Kent, Hannah (Author)
Hannah Kent was born in 1985 in Adelaide, Australia. She is the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. She won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award (2011). Burial Rites is her first novel. It won numerous awards including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the Indie Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year and the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award. Her second novel, The Good People, is being adapted into a film. She will be writing the screenplay.

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