Devotion: Hannah Kent - Softcover

Kent, Hannah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509863893 ISBN 13: 9781509863891

Verlag: Picador, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

1836, Prussia. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on her. A child of nature, she yearns instead for the rush of the river, the wind dancing around her. Hanne finds little comfort in the local girls and friendship doesn't come easily, until she meets Thea and she finds in her a kindred spirit and finally, acceptance.

Hanne's family are Old Lutherans, and in her small village hushed worship is done secretly - this is a community under threat. But when they are granted safe passage to Australia, the community rejoices: at last a place they can pray without fear, a permanent home. Freedom. It's a promise of freedom that will have devastating consequences for Hanne and Thea, but, on that long and brutal journey, their bond proves too strong for even nature to break.

From the bestselling author of Burial Rites and The Good People, Devotion is a stunning story of girlhood and friendship, faith and suspicion, and the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love.

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Hannah Kent was born in Adelaide in 1985. She is the co-founder and publishing director of Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings. In 2011 she won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. She is the author of Burial Rites, The Good People and Devotion.

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The much-anticipated novel will take us to early-nineteenth century Prussia, where Hanne and her family escape religious persecution by securing passage to the new colony of South Australia. In Kent's own words 'DEVOTION began as a desire to return to the light, after two previous novels which considered the dark. A curiosity about my German ancestors' immigration to South AustraIia in the mid-nineteenth century met with a deeper creative impulse to represent and celebrate that which has so often been rend

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509863893
• ISBN 13: 9781509863891
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
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