Maggie O'Farrell: Hamnet
Hamnet
Buch
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 05/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781984898876
- Bestellnummer: 10463916
- Umfang: 320 Seiten
- Gewicht: 245 g
- Maße: 203 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 16 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.5.2021
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"--Biografie
Maggie O'Farrell wurde in Nordirland geboren, wuchs in Wales und Schottland auf und lebt heute als Journalistin in London.Mehr von Maggie O'Farrell
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