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"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"--… (lisätietoja)
Hamnet is written by Maggie O’Farrell. This is a brilliantly, lovingly written book. It is so emotional with quiet yet powerful, lyrically written words. The writing seems ‘to transport’ one to the late 1500s in England. I was completely caught up in the day-to-day currents of the the town and its inhabitants. So historically and culturally accurate. Hamnet “is a luminous portrait of a marriage, of a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time.” ***** I am so glad I read this book. ( )
Little enough do we know about the Bard, William Shakespeare, but even less are we privy to in the lives of his most common family. A scant note about his father being an Alderman, the age gap with his wife, and the births of three children at Stratford is all that populates the historical eulogy of the Western world’s most famous writer. And yet his myth looms large centuries after his death, tempting researchers, writers, and enthusiasts to plumb the quilling depths to embellish the Elizabethan era in search of a lifelike Shakespearean family that comes off the page (and stage). O’Farrell may not be the first to be intrigued by the historical potential of the Bard, but she is one of the few who focuses the story away from its most famous player and brings to life the mysterious wife, his forebears, and the children who carried on his name. The story purports to be about Hamnet and Judith (being titled simply for the son who may have inspired Shakespeare’s most well-known play), but the whole family was so uniquely wrought that the story transcended my expectations entirely. Agnes was an easy favourite in the tale, as she plays the part of the surprisingly witchy girlfriend and matures into a woman who stands outside her time period alongside the husband who must leave their small town for London to forge the path that will bring him fame (and more importantly happiness). The pair are unexpected and illbegot according to the town, but their story is one that plays quietly towards Shakespeare’s own themes about troubled families, star-crossed lovers, and the risks one must take to forge a life. ( )
A truly remarkable novel, so finely wrought, conjuring up a powerful sense of the past, creating palpably real characters. A must for Shakespeare fans, but even if you don't know your Stratford-upon-Avon lore, there's a lot to be found here. ( )
As other have remarked, reading this book during the time of Covid 19 gives it an immediacy it couldn't have claimed in 'normal' times. This is story of a family, and how they cope with the death of one of its members, 11 year old twin Hamnet. It's particularly the story of Agnes, mother to Hamnet and wife of the man who's never mentioned by name, Shakespeare: and largely told by alternating the narrative between the time of Agnes' courtship, and the period during which their three children begin to grow, and Shakespeare moves to London. Reading the book, I was immersed in understanding the day-to-day business of bringing up an extended family, of small town life, and later, when Hamnet dies of the plague, of grief the which affects the characters in different ways. I relished the side-stories - understanding how the plague came to Europe for instance. This is an involving story of love and loss which commanded my complete involvement while I was reading it. ( )
I read it. It was fine, but the sentences were all very short, a sort of skimming of a story which didn’t slow for any one character to be really felt.
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
—Hamlet, Act IV, scene v
Hamnet and Hamlet are in fact the same name, entirely interchangeable in Stratford records in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
—Steven Greenblatt, "The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet," New York Review of Books (October 21, 2004)
I am dead: Thou livest; . . . draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story
—Hamlet, Act V, scene ii
Omistuskirjoitus
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
To Will
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
A boy is coming down a flight of stairs.
Un niño baja unas escaleras
Sitaatit
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Agnes believes her position, as new daughter-in-law, to be ambiguous, somewhere between apprentice and hen.
The branches of the forest are so dense you cannot feel the rain.
There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way.
What is the word, Judith asks her mother, for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin? ... If you were a wife , Judith continues, and your husband dies, then you are a widow. And if its parents die, a child becomes an orphan. But what is the word for what I am? ... Maybe there isn't one, she suggests. Maybe not, says her mother.
She will take a person for who they are, not what they are not or ought to be. (21 %)
The lines and lines of apples are moving, jolting, rocking on the shelves (22 %)
He breathes in. He breathes out. He turns his head and breathes into the whorls of her ear; he breathes in his strength, his health, his all. You will stay, is what he whispers, and I will go. He sends these words into her: I want you to take my life. It shall be yours I give it to you. (55 %)
She has a paring knife in her left hand - always her left - and she peels the skin from it (apple). It drips from the blades in big, green curls, like the hair of a mermaid. (75 %)
He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child's suffering for his own to take his place, to offer himself up in his child's stand so that the boy might live. (99 %)
Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
The ghost turns his head towards her, as he prepares to exit the scene. He is looking straight at her, meeting her gaze, as he speaks his final words: "Remember me."
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"--
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This is a brilliantly, lovingly written book.
It is so emotional with quiet yet powerful, lyrically written words.
The writing seems ‘to transport’ one to the late 1500s in England. I was completely
caught up in the day-to-day currents of the the town and its inhabitants. So historically
and culturally accurate.
Hamnet “is a luminous portrait of a marriage, of a family ravaged by grief, and a boy
whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time.”
***** I am so glad I read this book. (