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Title:
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Always Home, Always Homesick |
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Authors:
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Kent, Hannah |
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Genre:
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Non Fiction |
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Pages:
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325 |
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Year:
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2025 |
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Publisher:
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Pan Macmillan |
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Language:
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English |
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Description:
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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. Pan Macmillan, Taken from book cover.
Comments from BDS Reviewers:
"Kent has a beautiful writing style that has you captured from the start."
"The book gave a great insight into Iceland and how it developed its culture of writing, storytelling and song."
"Loved the focus on language, and how that impacts on a stranger's ability to know and understand people, even when they speak your language fluently."
"Hannah Kent's ability to describe her inner emotional life is exceptional, as is her ability to escape into her imagination in order to cope with sadness and homesickness."
"The level of detailed research required to write an historical novel was staggering."
"It helped having read 'Burial Rites' but if you hadn't it would make you want to, and have a great appreciation of the place and time."
"I absolutely loved this book - could not put it down on my first read, and needed to immediately read it again to wallow in the language and think more deeply as I read it."
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Categories:
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Non-fiction, Just Added, 2027 Titles, New Adult |
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