Hamnet

a novel of the plague

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR.H : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen : Historische Romane

Verfasser:
O'Farrell, Maggie

Verfasser Angabe:
Maggie O'Farrell

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Historischer Roman
• Shakespeare, William

Verlag:
Alfred A. Knopf-Verl.

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2020

Umfang:
305 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-525-65760-6

Inhalt:
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 taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down - a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.