Women's Prize for Fiction

Hamnet

Name: Hamnet
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
ISBN: 978-1-4722-2382-1

Par : Maggie O'Farrell

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Nombre de pages371
FormatGrand Format
PrésentationBroché
Poids0.335 kg
Dimensions12,9 cm × 19,8 cm × 2,8 cm
ISBN978-1-4722-2382-1
EAN9781472223821
Date de parution15/04/2021
ÉditeurHeadline Publishing Group

Résumé

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home ? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright : a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

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“ Never has Shakespeare felt so real. ”

Hamnet is the name of Shakespeare's son, the one who inspired Hamlet. It tells the story of a family, of the son, Hamnet, and his twin sister, and one fateful moment. It tells the story of their mother, and of her mother. It tells the story of our they met. It tells the many stories around them - each an individual, each the main character, each a tiny part of a complex whole. Each strand of their life is told in such a way that you want to stay, stay, stay with themn and know more. Maggie O'Farrell took the few facts we have of Shakespeare's life, and assembles them into something so truthfull, you'll want to believe every word.