Name: Hamnet
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Author: Maggie O'Farrell
ISBN: 9780525657606

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Physical Book

Author

Maggie O'Farrell

Publisher

Knopf

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 16.3 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.60 kg.

ISBN13

9780525657606

Synopsis "Hamnet "

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - 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 Globe In 1580's England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this "exceptional historical novel" (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. 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. Don't miss Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, The Marriage Portrait!

Maggie O'Farrell

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Maggie O’Farrell (1972 in Coleraine, Northern Ireland), grew up in Wales and Scotland after moving with her family at the age of two. At eight years old, she suffered a severe encephalitis that kept her hospitalized and away from school for more than a year, an experience that deeply influenced her life and work. She studied English Literature at Cambridge and worked as a journalist in Hong Kong and London before fully dedicating herself to writing. She currently lives in Edinburgh.

Her work is characterized by the psychological depth of her characters and original narrative. Among her most famous novels are, After You’d Gone (2000), her literary debut, winner of the Betty Trask Award; The Hand That First Held Mine (2010), awarded the Costa Novel Award; and Hamnet (2020), an international bestseller and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, which fictionalizes the life of William Shakespeare’s family.

Her work has been translated into more than 30 languages and has received numerous international accolades.

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Janet Garza Tuesday, May 25, 2021
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Te sumerge e involucra en su mundo. Excelente novela de época para quedarse toda la noche leyendo. Lenguaje descriptivo. Perspectiva innovadora.
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