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(0)Hannah Kent
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Three women in nineteenth-century Ireland bond over a shared effort to rescue a child from a superstitious community that believes that his trauma-related inability to speak indicates that he is a changeling responsible for a series of misfortunes.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Charged with the brutal murder of two men, Agnes Magnusdottir has been removed to her homeland's farthest reaches, to an isolated farm in northern Iceland, to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family on the farm avoids Agnes. Only Toti, a priest Agnes has chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. As the winter months pass and Agnes' s death looms closer, the farmer's wife and daughters...