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Always Home, Always Homesick

A Memoir

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'In my brief breath of life, might I find a way to fit light to paper?'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.

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Always Home, Always Homesick, Hannah Kent

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Rok vydania
2025
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Titul
Always Home, Always Homesick
Podtitul
A Memoir
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Picador
Rok vydania
2025
Väzba
pevná
Počet strán
272
ISBN10
1035066270
ISBN13
9781035066278
Série
Hodnotenie
4,45 z 5
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'In my brief breath of life, might I find a way to fit light to paper?'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.