Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

Picador / Pan Macmillan, 2013, First Edition, first Printing
Signed by author on title page
Publisher’s purple colour-dipped fore-edges 
Hardcover in original dustjacket
ISBN: 9781447233169 

Condition: Very Good
Binding tight; text clean. Signature clear. Minor edge and shelf wear with light rubbing and bumping to corners and covers.  Dustjacket shows minor edge wear with light rubbing and small chips (see photographs)

“In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover.
Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm district officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters.  Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the family avoid contact with Agnes.  Only Toti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes’s spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her.  As the year progresses and the hardships or rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes’s story begins to emerge – and with it the family’s terrible realisation that all is not as they had assumed…”