Book : Hamnet - O'Farrell, Maggie

-Titulo Original : Hamnet

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you. -The Boston GlobeEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor-penniless and bullied by a violent father-falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. Don’t miss Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel, The Marriage Portrait, coming in September! Review NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * ONE OF BILL GATESS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR * Book Club Pick: Duchess Camilla Parker Bowles’ The Reading Room OFarrell has a melodic relationship to language. There is a poetic cadence to her writing and a lushness in her descriptions of the natural world. . . . We can smell the tang of the various new leathers in the glovers workshop, the fragrance of the apples racked a finger-width apart in the winter storage shed. . . . As the book unfolds, it brings its story to a tender and ultimately hopeful conclusion: that even the greatest grief, the most damaged marriage, and most shattered heart might find some solace, some healing. -Geraldine Brooks, the New York Times Book Review “All too timely . . . inspired. . . . [An] exceptional historical novel ” -The New YorkerMagnificent and searing. . . . A family saga so bursting with life, touched by magic, and anchored in affection. . . . Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life, about whether he even wrote his own plays, here is a novel that matches him with a woman overwhelmingly more than worthy. -The Boston GlobeA tour de force. . . . Hamnet vividly captures the life-changing intensity of maternity in its myriad stages-from the pain of childbirth to the unassuagable grief of loss. Fierce emotions and lyrical prose are what weve come to expect of OFarrell. -NPR OFarrell moves through the familys pain like a master of signs and signals. . . . In Hamnet, art imitates life not to co-opt reality, but to help us bear it. - Los Angeles Times Wholly original, fully engrossing. . . . Agnes is a character for the ages-engimatic, fully formed and nearly literally bewitching to behold in every scene shes in. -San Francisco Chronicle “A moving portrait of a mother’s grief. . . . O’Farrell’s prose is characteristically beautiful.” -The Wall Street Journal “Evocative. . . . [ Hamnet] is also life-affirming as it suggests ways art can transcend misfortune.” -National Review “Superb. . . . O’Farrell’s exquisitely wrought eighth novel proves once again what a very fine writer she is.” -Financial Times “Elliptical, dreamlike. . . . [ Hamnet] confirms O’Farrell as an extraordinarily versatile writer, with a profound understanding of the most elemental human bonds-qualities also possessed by a certain former Latin tutor from Stratford.” -The Observer (UK) “A remarkable piece of work. . . . O’Farrell is one of the most surprisingly quiet radicals in fiction.” -The Scotsman (UK) “[A] portrayal of grief and pain. . . . O’Farrell describes these agonies with such power that Hamnet would resonate at any time.” -The Guardian “[O’Farrell is] a writer of rare emotional intelligence whose personal intimations of mortality bear rich fruit in this, her eighth novel.” -Evening