Hamnet

Hamnet (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by ACADEMY AWARD winner Chloe Zhao.The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeares eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play."Miraculous. brilliant. A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer or curse. A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death." Ron Charles, The Washington PostEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.A young Latin tutorpenniless and bullied by a violent fatherfalls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her familys 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 just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put downa magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists. "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780525657606

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