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stones."</i><br><br>While I did enjoy this one, I was never completely drawn into Agnes' story. I had expected to understand and feel pity or sadness for her plight. But I did love and credit the author with the ambiguity she did show us. Agnes is the perfect character for this plight. She isn't perfect and she does show her rage, her jealousy and her fits. She's smart to boot, so smart others worry about what she knows - that she might be a witch.<br><br>Agnes is also the perfect sad character to be drawn into a murder. Do you know her role? Do you think she's a victim or the vile mastermind they have painted of her? <br><br>Only Natan knows, and he's not talking. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275166025" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275166025"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275166025" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275166025" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275166025"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Trisha_Thomas" target="_top">Trisha_Thomas</a> | Nov 14, 2024 | <a href="/review/275166025"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_274400211" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/13687291" data-workid="13687291" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div><b><u>. Just finished reading this book and reading the book as opposed to listening to it really did enhance the experience for me and I upped my rating to 5 stars. Great book.<br><br>Reading this for the second time. I previously listened to this as an audio book and while the audio version is excellent I wanted to read this as I think it will enhance the experience even more.</u></b><br><br>Burial Rites is the extraordinary haunting debut novel by Hannah Kent an Australian Writer. This book is set in Iceland in 1829 and tells the story of Agnes Magnusdottir who was found guilty of murdering her employer as he slept. She was condemned to death. She was the last person to be public executed in Iceland and this book is based on true events.<br><br>I read an interview with the author and she spent two years researching this story and the back round information to this story benefits greatly from this research as not only do we learn the what happened to Agnes we learn about a place, its peoples the customs and traditions or the time, their religious beliefs and the beautiful and harrowing landscape is described so well that you get a wonderful sense of time and place from Kent's writing. This is something I appreciate in a story as it enhances the book and the reader learns something about a place and time with which they may not be familiar.<br><br>Kent's powerful and beautiful prose takes a story that could have been depressing and gives it a wonderful haunting feel to it and reminded me of the feeling I had when I read Wuthering Heights. I loved the tone of the story and as I listened to this as an audio book, the narration was perfect for the story and really made an excellent audio book. I especially enjoyed the pronunciation of surnames of people and places in the story and the explanation that was at the beginning of the book. I am not a big fan of audio books as I much prefer to read a book but the narrator really was excellent. I will probably buy the paperback version someday just to read it again.<br><br>I loved how the author gives you the story from different points of view and you find yourself immersed in Agnes telling of her story as imagined by the author. I think I can see how Hannah Kent was so taken with Agnes and the events of 1829.<br><br>Burial rites is a thought provoking and deeply moving story and I would highly recommend it but it may not please everybody as it is not an uplifting story and some may find it rather dark.<br>I think it would make an excellent book club read as there is plenty to discuss. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_274400211" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274400211"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_274400211" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_274400211" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_274400211"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/DemFen" target="_top">DemFen</a> | Oct 31, 2024 | <a href="/review/274400211"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_274400047" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/13687291" data-workid="13687291" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div><b> Just finished reading Burial Rites for the 3rd time (Book Club Choice) and its still manages to pack a punch third time around. This is one of my 10 ten favourite books as it is just so well written and so atmospheric. </b><br><br>Burial Rites is the extraordinary haunting debut novel by Hannah Kent an Australian Writer. This book is set in Iceland in 1829 and tells the story of Agnes Magnusdottir who was found guilty of murdering her employer as he slept. She was condemned to death. She was the last person to be public executed in Iceland and this book is based on true events.<br><br>I read an interview with the author and she spent two years researching this story and the back round information to this story benefits greatly from this research as not only do we learn the what happened to Agnes we learn about a place, its peoples the customs and traditions or the time, their religious beliefs and the beautiful and harrowing landscape is described so well that you get a wonderful sense of time and place from Kent's writing. This is something I appreciate in a story as it enhances the book and the reader learns something about a place and time with which they may not be familiar.<br><br>Kent's powerful and beautiful prose takes a story that could have been depressing and gives it a wonderful haunting feel to it and reminded me of the feeling I had when I read Wuthering Heights. I loved the tone of the story and as I listened to this as an audio book, the narration was perfect for the story and really made an excellent audio book. I especially enjoyed the pronunciation of surnames of people and places in the story and the explanation that was at the beginning of the book. I am not a big fan of audio books as I much prefer to read a book but the narrator really was excellent. I will probably buy the paperback version someday just to read it again.<br><br>I loved how the author gives you the story from different points of view and you find yourself immersed in Agnes telling of her story as imagined by the author. I think I can see how Hannah Kent was so taken with Agnes and the events of 1829.<br><br>Burial rites is a thought provoking and deeply moving story and I would highly recommend it but it may not please everybody as it is not an uplifting story and some may find it rather dark.<br>It made a terrific book club read as plenty to discuss and very thought provoking. <br><br>I have also read [b:The Good People|29248613|The Good People|Hannah Kent|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1467899607s/29248613.jpg|49494722] by [a:Hannah Kent|6569504|Hannah Kent|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1470708527p2/6569504.jpg][b:The Good People|29248613|The Good People|Hannah Kent|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1467899607s/29248613.jpg|49494722] and rated it 3 stars. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_274400047" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274400047"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_274400047" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_274400047" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_274400047"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/DemFen" target="_top">DemFen</a> | Oct 31, 2024 | <a href="/review/274400047"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_273104313" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/13687291" data-workid="13687291" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>2nd time reading (for a Book group), interval of about 7 years. Found it even better the 2nd time round. Very atmospheric, plays with your emotions. A very bleak setting, you can feel the bitter wind, and biting cold. I'd forgotten it was based on a true story, it was interesting to look up some background on Iceland's capital punishment history, and its relations with Denmark. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273104313" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273104313"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273104313" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273104313" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273104313"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/ClaireBinFrance" target="_top">ClaireBinFrance</a> | Oct 8, 2024 | <a href="/review/273104313"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_273066871" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/13687291" data-workid="13687291" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316243914.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>***NO SPOILERS***<br><br>Based on true events that took place in 1829, this re-creation of the last days of murderer Agnes Magnúsdóttir is impressively written but plods along most of the time and is overwhelmingly dreary. <i>Burial Rites</i> is passively told, with Agnes telling a priest and the family she lives with about the murder while awaiting execution. <br><br>I was often impatient with this book. Agnes is reticent and talks for too long about subjects other than the crime, such as her childhood and one of the victims. On the latter point I was especially frustrated that for most of the story she wouldn’t say whether she was romantically involved with that particular victim. Interspersed with this reminiscing is the present-day narrative, which is description of her day-to-day life helping with farm chores. <br><br>The setting is a dismal, cold Iceland, portrayed as a truly wretched place to live. This is fine—it’s the reality of this place—but author Hannah Kent hammered home the point repeatedly. <br><br>The story picks up considerably a little more than halfway through, when Agnes finally gets to the heart of the matter and reveals all. Much more dialogue and action enters the story, and the victims and perpetrators come to dramatic life. Agnes also seems to wake up in the present-day narrative. <br><br>Agnes is hard to connect with emotionally, though. In part this is because <i>Burial Rites</i> is so passively told, but more so because Agnes is so detached a figure that it’s hard to feel anything for her beyond a superficial pity. Her backstory is tragic, and she carries that sadness with her so that she’s nothing more than a flat, melancholy character. When Agnes’s execution day arrives, although Kent tried valiantly to make the scene highly emotional, the impact is muted. <br><br>Kent’s writing is elegant and beautiful, notably lacking in any self-consciousness or pretension. It’s the main reason to read <i>Burial Rites</i>. There’s nothing so special about Agnes Magnúsdóttir. The crime isn’t interesting nor is the fact that she was the last woman beheaded in Iceland. It’s <i>the way</i> Kent told this tale that elevates it. She calls <i>Burial Rites</i> her “love letter to Iceland,” and I’m sure Iceland is proud that such a gifted writer was the one who wrote it. <br><br>(On a side note, my edition contains an author’s note in which Kent explained how she came to write <i>Burial Rites</i>, plus an author interview. These are fascinating, and I recommend reading them.) <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273066871" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273066871"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273066871" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273066871" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273066871"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Caroline77" target="_top">Caroline77</a> | Oct 7, 2024 | <a href="/review/273066871"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','13687291','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','13687291','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 1-5 of 274 (<a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',5,0,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','13687291','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','13687291','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_b6dffaca', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_b6dffaca" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_f9892951_link"><tr><td id="left">11 reviews</td><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'13687291'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> thingScore <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews"><span class="mre_score mre_score_good">77</span></a></td></tr></table><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30829" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_a2d478b1" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30829" class="commentText">One of the best “Scandinavian” crime novels I have read, Burial Rites is the work of an Australian who visited Iceland on a cultural exchange.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30829', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-review-burial-rites-by-hannah-kent-picador-1299-8911521.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Independent (London)</span>, <span class="nowrap">Jane Jakeman</span></a> <span rawdate="1383019200" class="nowrap">(Oct 29, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30832" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_8b2dc6d7" title="5.0 Stars" aria-title="5.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-du.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30832" class="commentText">The novel isn't seamless—Ms. Kent disrupts its rhythms by awkwardly switching between an omniscient narrator and Agnes's first-person point of view. But it convincingly animates Agnes, who feels "knifed to the hilt with fate," showing her headstrong humanity and heart-wrenching thirst for life. At one point she recalls seeing two icebergs grinding together off the northern shore, the friction from their exposed boulders causing gathered driftwood to go up in flames. At her best, Ms. Kent achieves a similar eerie force in this story of passion in a frozen place.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30832', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304069604579153822619412550" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Wall Street Journal</span>, <span class="nowrap">Sam Sacks</span></a> <span rawdate="1382673600" class="nowrap">(Oct 25, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30827" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_aae83116" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30827" class="commentText">There are other stylistic problems. Some dialogue that’s meant to seem elevated and of its time simply sounds unidiomatic: “I was worried of as much”; “The only recourse to her absolution would be through prayer.” There’s prefab phrasing — “my heart throbbed,” “she said breathlessly,” “overcome with relief” — and descriptive clichés, including a sky that’s “bright, bright blue, so bright you could weep.” </div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30827', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/books/review/burial-rites-by-hannah-kent.html?_r=0" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">New York Times</span>, <span class="nowrap">Steven Heighton</span></a> <span rawdate="1380254400" class="nowrap">(Sep 27, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30826" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_df3e945a" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30826" class="commentText">A remarkable story of the last case of capital punishment recorded in Iceland, Burial Rites is the extraordinary debut novel by Australian author Hannah Kent.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30826', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/428991/Book-review-Burial-Rites-by-Hannah-Kent" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Daily Express (London)</span>, <span class="nowrap">Hannah Britt</span></a> <span rawdate="1379044800" class="nowrap">(Sep 13, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30823" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_b5022bd9" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30823" class="commentText">Burial Rites is a debut of rare sophistication and beauty – a simple but moving story, meticulously researched and hauntingly told.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30823', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/25/burial-rites-hannah-kent-review" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Guardian</span>, <span class="nowrap">Lucy Scholes</span></a> <span rawdate="1377403200" class="nowrap">(Aug 25, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div id="u_f9892951" style="display:none;"><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30825" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_4df036f9" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30825" class="commentText">Although its setting — Iceland in 1829 — is strikingly unpromising, Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites is a remarkable achievement.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30825', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article1300025.ece" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Sunday Times (London)</span>, <span class="nowrap">John Dugdale</span></a> (pay site) <span rawdate="1376798400" class="nowrap">(Aug 18, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30830" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_da165de4" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30830" class="commentText">Amidst an agrarian existence of bleak deprivation, the stories, whether Biblical or other, that characters tell themselves in Burial Rites are the meat they feed off; small but compelling pleasures they allow themselves.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30830', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/arts/article/review-burial-rites" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Adelaide Review</span>, <span class="nowrap">Tali Lavi</span></a> <span rawdate="1370059200" class="nowrap">(Jun 1, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30831" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_c673c4e4" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30831" class="commentText">Hannah Kent has a fine turn of phrase. It is this, more than anything, that makes Agnes Magnusdottir, the central figure in her debut novel, both elusive and captivating.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30831', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/burial-rites-review--prejudice-melts-away-in-a-frigid-landscape-20130524-2k6gs.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Sydney Morning Herald</span>, <span class="nowrap">Michael McGirr</span></a> <span rawdate="1369454400" class="nowrap">(May 25, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30833" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_480e0884" title="5.0 Stars" aria-title="5.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-du.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30833" class="commentText">A major two-book deal with Pan Macmillan and some heavyweight PR means that most will read about Kent’s work before they read the novel itself, a pressure this competent debut could do without. Having started life as a verse novel, Burial Rites still bulges at its seams, descriptive lyricism occasionally spilling over into excess. </div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30833', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/may/1366950580/alexandra-coghlan/burial-rites-hannah-kent" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Monthly (Australia)</span>, <span class="nowrap">Alexandra Coghlan</span></a> <span rawdate="1367380800" class="nowrap">(May 1, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30828" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_e25fcc0c" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30828" class="commentText">IT all started because she was a girl who had never seen snow. That lack, commonplace enough in an Australian childhood, took Hannah Kent to a desolate hillside in Iceland where, more than 170 years earlier, one woman's life came to a brutal end. </div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30828', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/hannah-kents-debut-novel-burial-rites-is-written-in-cold-blood/story-fn9n8gph-1226623451767" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Australian</span>, <span class="nowrap">Stephen Romei</span></a> <span rawdate="1366430400" class="nowrap">(Apr 20, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="30822" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_f4b10ef9" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_30822" class="commentText">The author, who has researched with utmost scrupulousness this spare, disquieting first novel about the last execution to occur in Iceland, describes it as a “dark love letter” to the country. Dark it certainly is, with a sombre foreboding so thick it is almost tangible. ...Kent portrays the harsh existence of these rural, highly literate people with exactitude; and even the bleakness of Agnes’s end, its gut-churning fear, holds an exhilaration that borders on the sublime. </div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/hf22">hf22</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'30822', 'workid':'13687291'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/10290906/Burial-Rites-by-Hannah-Kent-review.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Telegraph (London)</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div></div><div class="sa_tools"><a href="#" 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href="/award/993.4/British-Book-Awards-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/993.0.4703/British-Book-Awards-International-Author">International Author</a> – <a href="/award/993.0.0.2014/British-Book-Awards-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2525/Davitt-Award" class="" >Davitt Award</a> (<a href="/award/2525.1/Davitt-Award-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/2525.0.3230/Davitt-Award-Debut-Novel">Debut Novel</a> – <a href="/award/2525.0.0.2014/Davitt-Award-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2525/Davitt-Award" class="" >Davitt Award</a> (<a href="/award/2525.4/Davitt-Award-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/2525.0.10550/Davitt-Award-Adult-Novel">Adult Novel</a> – <a href="/award/2525.0.0.2014/Davitt-Award-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/908/Guardian-First-Book-Award" class="" >Guardian First Book Award</a> (<a href="/award/908.4/Guardian-First-Book-Award-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/908.0.0.2013/Guardian-First-Book-Award-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1218/Inaugural-Writing-Australia-Unpublished-Manuscript-Award" class="" >Inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award</a> (<a href="/award/1218.0.0.2011/Inaugural-Writing-Australia-Unpublished-Manuscript-Award-2011">2011</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1994/Indie-Book-Award-Australia" class="" >Indie Book Award (Australia)</a> (<a href="/award/1994.1/Indie-Book-Award-Australia-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/1994.0.2694/Indie-Book-Award-Australia-Debut-Fiction">Debut Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/1994.0.0.2014/Indie-Book-Award-Australia-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/945/International-Dublin-Literary-Award" class="" >International Dublin Literary Award</a> (<a href="/award/945.4/International-Dublin-Literary-Award-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/945.0.0.2015/International-Dublin-Literary-Award-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/663/Maine-Readers-Choice-Award" class="" >Maine Readers' Choice Award</a> (<a href="/award/663.3/Maine-Readers-Choice-Award-Longlist">Longlist</a> – <a href="/award/663.0.0.2014/Maine-Readers-Choice-Award-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1328/NextReads-Best-Historical-Fiction" class="" >NextReads Best Historical Fiction</a> (<a href="/award/1328.0.0.2013/NextReads-Best-Historical-Fiction-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/13650/Nib-Literary-Award" class="" >Nib Literary Award</a> (<a href="/award/13650.4/Nib-Literary-Award-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/13650.0.0.2013/Nib-Literary-Award-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/4132/Stella-Prize" class="" >Stella Prize</a> (<a href="/award/4132.4/Stella-Prize-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/4132.0.0.2014/Stella-Prize-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div id="u_a231da67" class="rolldown" data-action="slide" data-more="show more" data-less="show less" data-all="show all 20" ><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2822/Victorian-Premiers-Literary-Award" class="" >Victorian Premier's Literary Award</a> (<a href="/award/2822.1/Victorian-Premiers-Literary-Award-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/2822.0.7295/Victorian-Premiers-Literary-Award-Peoples-Choice">People's Choice</a> – <a href="/award/2822.0.0.2014/Victorian-Premiers-Literary-Award-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2822/Victorian-Premiers-Literary-Award" class="" >Victorian Premier's Literary Award</a> (<a href="/award/2822.4/Victorian-Premiers-Literary-Award-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/2822.0.20095/Victorian-Premiers-Literary-Award-Vance-Palmer-Prize-for-Fiction">Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/2822.0.0.2014/Victorian-Premiers-Literary-Award-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/4624/Voss-Literary-Prize" class="" >Voss Literary Prize</a> (<a href="/award/4624.4/Voss-Literary-Prize-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/4624.0.0.2014/Voss-Literary-Prize-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1544/Waterstones-11" class="" >Waterstones 11</a> (<a href="/award/1544.0.0.2013/Waterstones-11-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1353/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction" class="" >Women's Prize for Fiction</a> (<a href="/award/1353.4/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/1353.0.0.2014/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction-2014">2014</a>)</div></div></div></div><h2>Distinctions</h2><div id="u_362ec648" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/316/Amazons-Best-Books-of-the-Month" class="" >Amazon's Best Books of the Month</a> (<a href="/award/316.0.0.171910/Amazons-Best-Books-of-the-Month-September-2013">September 2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/18/Amazon-com-Best-Books" class="" >Amazon.com Best Books</a> (<a href="/award/18.0.1437/Amazon-com-Best-Books-Literature-Fiction">Literature & Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/18.0.0.2013/Amazon-com-Best-Books-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/618/Historical-Novel-Society-Editors-Choice" class="" >Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice</a> (<a href="/award/618.0.1652/Historical-Novel-Society-Editors-Choice-Literary">Literary</a>)</div></div></div><h2>Notable Lists</h2><div id="u_1b1be0eb" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1622/100-Must-Read-Australian-Books" class="" >100 Must-Read Australian Books</a> (<a href="/award/1622.0.5/100-Must-Read-Australian-Books-Fiction">Fiction</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/14535/The-best-debut-novels-of-all-time" class="" >The best debut novels of all time</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15106/Between-the-Covers" class="" >Between the Covers</a> (<a href="/award/15106.292/Between-the-Covers-Series-6">Series 6</a> – <a href="/award/15106.0.0.2023/Between-the-Covers-2023">2023</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/13677/Lariat-Adult-Fiction-Reading-List" class="" >Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List</a> (<a href="/award/13677.106/Lariat-Adult-Fiction-Reading-List-Selection">Selection</a> – <a href="/award/13677.0.0.2014/Lariat-Adult-Fiction-Reading-List-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/870/LibraryReads" class="" >LibraryReads</a> (<a href="/award/870.241/LibraryReads-Monthly-Pick">Monthly Pick</a> – <a href="/award/870.0.6822/LibraryReads-Top-Ten">Top Ten</a> – <a href="/award/870.0.0.171910/LibraryReads-September-2013">September 2013</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_60" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><a value="view history" value="view history" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn btn-tiny btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/commonknowledge/changelog.php?item=13687291&type=1" ><span class="btntxt">view history</span></a></div><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'ck', 'u_0107c97d', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Common Knowledge</span><span class="sectionTitleST"></span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_0107c97d" style="display:block;"><div id="fwikiContainerTablediv"><table class="fwikiContainerTable ch1 " fn="inlineWikiItemsContent"> <tr> <td COLSPAN="2"> 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<td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_90fbd6f3' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='42' name='u_90fbd6f3' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'alternativetitles' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Avoid titles already listed as the Canonical or Original titles as well as foreign-language titles available on the "Details" tab.' ><div class='fwikiItem divalternativetitles'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_originalpublicationdate"></a>Original publication date</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_a6e1bee9' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='16' name='u_a6e1bee9' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'originalpublicationdate' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '1952-12-30, 1933-10, 1902, or 120 BCE' ><div class='fwikiItem divoriginalpublicationdate'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=2013-09-10&f=16&exact=1&type=1">2013-09-10</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_characternames"></a>People/Characters</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_92be1e70' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='3' name='u_92be1e70' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'characternames' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Enter each character's name in a separate box. Examples: Hermione Granger, Andrew Jackson, Oberon, St. Paul of Tarsus, or Zeus (Deity)' ><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Agnes+Magn%C3%BAsd%C3%B3ttir">Agnes Magnúsdóttir</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Natan+Ketilsson">Natan Ketilsson</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Bj%C3%B6rn+Bl%C3%B6ndal">Björn Blöndal</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/P%C3%A9tur+J%C3%B3nsson">Pétur Jónsson</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Steina+J%C3%B3nsd%C3%B3ttir">Steina Jónsdóttir</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_2b6c7d77">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_2b6c7d77')">show all 9 items</a>)</div><div id="u_2b6c7d77" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Margr%C3%A9t">Margrét</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/J%C3%B3n">Jón</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Lauga+J%C3%B3nsd%C3%B3ttir">Lauga Jónsdóttir</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/T%C3%B3ti">Tóti</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Assistant+Reverend+Thorvardur+J%C3%B3nsson">Assistant Reverend Thorvardur Jónsson</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_58f75225' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='2' name='u_58f75225' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Iceland">Iceland</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/H%C3%BAnavatnss%C3%BDsla%2C+Iceland">Húnavatnssýsla, Iceland</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_54a02549' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='34' name='u_54a02549' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/events/Last+execution+of+capital+punishment++in+Iceland">Last execution of capital punishment in Iceland</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1830-12-1">1830-12-1</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_a72339a2' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='37' name='u_a72339a2' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr>     <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_b373e993' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='28' name='u_b373e993' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." ' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I was worst to the one I loved best. <br><br> <i> Laxdæla Saga</i></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_bd744331' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='30' name='u_bd744331' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><i>For my parents</i></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_4295dbb5' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='25' name='u_4295dbb5' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >They said I must die.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_b6c368f9' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='27' name='u_b6c368f9' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >His hair is as red as before, as red as the midnight sun. It looks as though his locks have soaked up the light as a skein of wool suffers the dye.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >"Do you know the right name for a flock of ravens?"<br>Tóti shook his head.<br>"A conspiracy, Reverend. A <i>conspiracy</i>."</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >A tight fear, like a fishing line, hooked upon something that must, inevitably, be dragged from the depths.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Yes, I am quite alone, and a tremble of exhilaration passes along my skin, like the tremor on the surface of a pot of water about to boil.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >At Hvammur, during the trial, they plucked at my words like birds. Dreadful birds, dressing in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_916fbf59">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_916fbf59')">show all 29 items</a>)</div><div id="u_916fbf59" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >After the trial, the priest from Tjörn told me that I would burn if I did not cast my mind back over the sin of my life and pray for forgiveness. As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I feel drunk with summer and sunlight. I want to seize fistfuls of sky and eat them. As the scythes run sharp fingers through the stalks, the cut grass makes a gasping sound.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >"That's what happened to my mother, Reverend," Agnes continued. "Who was she really? Probably not as people say she was, but she made mistakes and others made up their minds about her. People around here don't let you forget your misdeeds. They think them the only things worth writing down."</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >If he wants to learn of my family he'll have a hard time of it. Two fathers and a mother who seem as blurry to me as strangers departing through a snowstorm.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >It's a silent memory, and one, like the others, I can't quite trust. Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Did my mother look down at her baby daughter and think: "One day I will leave you?" Did she look at my scrunched face, hoping I would die, or did she silently urge me to stick to life like a burr? Perhaps she looked out to the valley, into the mist and stillness, and wondered what she could give me. A lie for a father. A head of dark hair. A hayrack to sleep in. A kiss. A stone, so that I might learn to understand the birds and never be lonely.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >"In here," she said, "I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It's written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink."</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >two women were spreading clothes out to dry in what slender sun the day afforded.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >In those early visits it was as though we were building something sacred. We'd place words carefully together, piling them upon one another, leaving no spaces.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Then there was the first touch of skin on skin, and that was the gunshot, the freefall.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I craved his weight, then.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I arched my neck until my face was wet with the drifting damp.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >He groaned and the sound lingered in the air like a cloud of ash over a volcano.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I felt too much to see it for what it was.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >When everything froze we met in the storeroom, with a constellation of drying meat above our heads.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I remember feeling too full with blood.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >For the first time in my life, someone <i>saw</i> me, and I loved him because he made me feel I was enough.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >All those weeks, all those nights, I was rotted through with hunger.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >All that willpower to contain that which I wanted to cry into the wind, and scratch into the dirt, and burn into the grass.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >He would haul me out of the valley, out of the husk of my miserable, loveless life, and everything would be new.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I could even see the west fjords over the gray swell of water. Like a shadow of themselves.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >I learnt later that he was as changeable as the ocean, and God help you if you saw his expression shift and darken.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >But the hours crept past like the guilty and midnight came and went, and still he did not come inside.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Only the wind speaks and it will not talk sense, it screams like the widow of the world and will not wait for a reply.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_755b2d06' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='26' name='u_755b2d06' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. Content will be hidden unless clicked.' ><div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_e9908b81" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >The sudden sound of the first axe fall echoed throughout the valley.</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_e9908b81')" id="link_u_e9908b81">(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)</a><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_8b7f3135" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >While the deed took place, and there until it was finished, everything was appropriately quiet and well-ordered, and it was concluded by a short address by Reverend Magnus Arnason to those that were there.<br><br><b>Actum ut supra.<br> B. Bléndal, R. Olsen, A. Arnason<br>From the Magistrate's Book of Hunavatn District, 1830</b><br><br>(Epilogue)</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_8b7f3135')" id="link_u_8b7f3135">(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)</a><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_disambiguation"></a>Disambiguation notice</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_6416d39e' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='13' name='u_6416d39e' allowmultiple='0' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'disambiguation' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Clarifications to be used by future combiners and separators, or just as information.' ><div class='fwikiItem divdisambiguation'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_series"></a>Publisher's editors</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_7dd01c8a' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='1' name='u_7dd01c8a' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'literaryeditors' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Publisher's or acquiring editor' ><div class='fwikiItem divliteraryeditors'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_blubers"></a>Blurbers</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_cee428fe' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='29' name='u_cee428fe' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'blurbers' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Who blurbed the book? A blurb is defined as a super-short review, done before the book is published or reviewed professionally. As Rachael Donadio wrote, "Book blurbs are a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith." This field aims to capture that tangle! <b>Note:</b> Please enter only the names of people, not publications. Use the form: Lastname, Firstname.' ><div class='fwikiItem divblurbers'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Miller%2C+Madeline&f=29&exact=1&type=1">Miller, Madeline</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divblurbers'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Brooks%2C+Geraldine&f=29&exact=1&type=1">Brooks, Geraldine</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divblurbers'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Berry%2C+Anne&f=29&exact=1&type=1">Berry, Anne</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divblurbers'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Abbott%2C+Megan&f=29&exact=1&type=1">Abbott, Megan</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divblurbers'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Slaughter%2C+Karin&f=29&exact=1&type=1">Slaughter, Karin</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_originallanguage"></a>Original language</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_5cdecfed' itemType='1' itemNum='13687291' fieldType='58' name='u_5cdecfed' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'originallanguage' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '' ><div class='fwikiItem divoriginallanguage'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=English&f=58&exact=1&type=1">English</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_canonicalddc"></a>Canonical DDC/MDS</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_054de02d' 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class='fwikiItem divcanonicallcc'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> </table></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_65" class="quickedit light flipped"><a class="nooffset" name="references"></a><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'references', 'u_4b2b3cdc', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>References</span></div><div class="qelcontent references alwaysblue" id="u_4b2b3cdc" style="display:block;"><p>References to this work on external resources.</p><h2><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/favicon_wikipedia.gif" class="icon">Wikipedia in English (2)</h2><div 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Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard. . . . 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