Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2014 and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014
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?
AWARDS
- Short-listed for The Stella Prize 2014.
- Short-listed for The Guardian First Book Award 2013.
- Winner for Indie Awards 2014Winner for Indie Awards 2014.
- Winner for Victorian Premier's Literary Award People's Choice Award 2014.
- Winner for FAW Christina Stead Award 2014.
- Winner for 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.
- Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014.
- Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2014.
- Short-listed for ALS Gold Medal 2014.
- Short-listed for NiB Waverley Award for Literature 2013.
- Short-listed for Voss Literary Award 2014.
- Winner for Davitt Awards Reader's Choice 2014.
- Short-listed for National Book Awards 2014Short-listed for National Book Awards 2014.
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