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Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent
An emotional and atmospheric story - Excellent historical fiction - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

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"Here is an original new voice, with a deep and lovely grasp of language and story. Hannah Kent's first novel, BURIAL RITES, is an accomplished gem, its prose as crisp and sparkling as its northern setting."-Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"A compelling read, heart-breaking and uplifting in equal measure."-Anne Berry, author of The Hungry Ghosts

"Hannah Kent's gorgeous and haunting BURIAL RITES will touch your heart."-Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat

"So gripping I wanted to rush through the pages, but so beautifully written I wanted to linger over every sentence. Hannah Kent's debut novel is outstanding."-Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles

"Hannah Kent's BURIAL RITES shows how a seemingly simple tale-a murder, a family, a remote landscape-can prove mythic in scale in the right hands. Spell-binding and moving, it's the kind of novel that gets under your skin, moves your blood, your heart. A bravura debut."-Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me

"A magical exercise in artful literary fiction.... With language flickering, sparkling and flashing like the northern lights.... Beautiful are Kent's descriptions of the interminable summer light, the ever-present snow and ice and cold of winter's gloomy darkness, the mountains, sea and valleys where sustenance is blood-rung from sheep."-Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

"Delves deep into Scandinavian history, not to mention matters of storytelling, guilt, and silence.... Kent smoothly incorporates her impressive research...while giving life to these historical figures and suspense to their tales."-Publishers Weekly

"Rarely has a country's starkness and extreme weather been rendered so exquisitely. The harshness of the landscape and the lifestyle of nineteenth-century Iceland, with its dank turf houses and meager food supply, is as finely detailed as the heartbreak and tragedy of Agnes' life.... [A]haunting reading from a bright new talent."-Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist (Starred Review)

"In the company of works by Hilary Mantel, Susan Vreeland, and Rose Tremain, this compulsively readable novel entertains while illuminating a significant but little-known true story. Highly recommended."-Barbara Love, Library Journal (Starred Review)

"Deeply emotional [and] gripping.... A cross between the grim, moorish atmosphere of Wuthering Heights and the cold, religiously-infested repression of a Bergman film, Kent's novel emerges alive, triumphant and sublimely poetic."-Shelf Awareness

"If you read nothing else this fall, read BURIAL RITES: The pages turn themselves."-Steph Opitz, Marie Claire

"Debut author Hannah Kent has crafted a gorgeous, literary novel that peppers in just the right amount of suspense. I loved this story not just because of its intricate character studies, but for its evocation of a cold and formidable landscape that is just as stark as the people who inhabit it. This compelling, ripped-from-real-life tale reminds me of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace with a dash of Lizzie Borden thrown in. BURIAL RITES is the sort of novel that stays in your head long after you've finished reading the last words."-Karin Slaughter, author of the Grant County and Will Trent/Atlanta series

"BURIAL RITES is a debut of rare sophistication and beauty - a simple but moving story, meticulously researched and hauntingly told."-Lucy Scholes, The Guardian UK

"A brooding, atmospheric debut."-Entertainment Weekly

"Offers lovers of historical fiction a stunning new setting in which to become immersed.... Kent's powerful and beautiful prose along with Agnes' fascinating story will hook readers and not let them go."-SheKnows.com

"Gorgeously atmospheric.... [with] memorable, complex characters."-The New Yorker

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