Hannah Kent Knihy

Islandský příběh o touze a zradě. Děj se odehrává na Islandu, kde jsou lidské vztahy utvářeny nádhernou, avšak drsnou severskou přírodou, ale i každodenním tvrdým bojem o živobytí. Agnes Magnúsdóttir, mladá žena, je odsouzena za brutální vraždu svého pána a milence, a je poslána na izolovanou farmu strážníka Jóna Jónssona, aby zde čekala na popravu. Jeho rodina je zděšená, že má poskytnout domov odsouzené vražedkyni, a zpočátku jí opovrhuje. Jen Tóti, mladý kněz, který se stane Agnesinou duchovní oporou, cítí při svých návštěvách odsouzené potřebu porozumět jí a pochopit, co se vlastně stalo. Když však letní měsíce vystřídá zima a tvrdý farmářský život přinutí celou domácnost pracovat bok po boku, všichni Agnes poznávají blíže. Postupně se vynořuje její tragický příběh o touze a zradě a najednou vyplývá, že nic není tak, jak se na počátku zdálo.

'In my brief breath of life, might I find a way to fit light to paper?'In a land of ethereal beauty, within a culture soaked in myth, a young woman discovers the story that will change her life.In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter.That night she sleeps off her jet lag and bewilderment in the National Archives of Iceland, unaware that, years later, she will return to the same building to write Burial Rites, the haunting story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman executed in Iceland. The novel will go on to launch the author's stellar literary career and capture the hearts of readers across the globe.Always Home, Always Homesick is Hannah Kent's exquisite love letter to a land that has forged a nation of storytellers, her ode to the transcendent power of creativity, and her invitation to us all to join her in the realms of mystery, spirit and wonder.

A mesmerising literary novel about a lost man in search of connection that is also a meditation on love, art and commitment, set against the backdrop of one of the greatest art events in modern history.

From the bestselling author of the multi-award-winning Burial Rites. "Lyrical and unsettling ... A literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller, Hannah Kent takes us on a frightening journey towards an unspeakable tragedy. I am in awe of Kent's gifts as a storyteller." Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train "a thoroughly engrossing entrée into the macabre nature of a vanished society, its virtues and its follies and its lethal impulses." Thomas Keneally, winner of the Booker Prize "Hannah Kent's much-anticipated second novel is a thoroughly atmospheric and involving read" Books and Publishing In the year 1825, in a remote valley lying between the mountains of south-west Ireland, three women are brought together by strange and troubling events. Nóra Leahy has lost her daughter and her husband in the same year, and is now burdened with the care of her four-year-old grandson: a boy who suffers from a mysterious malady and can neither walk nor speak. Unable to care for the child alone, Nóra hires a servant girl, Mary, who soon hears whispers in the valley about the blasted creature causing grief to fall on the widow's house. Alone, hedged in by rumour, Mary and her mistress seek out the only person who might be able to help Michaél. For although her neighbours are wary of her, it is said that Nance Roche has the knowledge. That she consorts with Them, the Good People. And that only she can return those whom they have taken ...

The powerful, moving and truly unique novel from the international bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People.