Hamnet

Drawing on Maggie O'Farrell's long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic play, Hamnet is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child.

Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes …

Award-winning author Maggie O'Farrell's new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides an unforgettable vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.

3 ediciones

Tapa blanda, 372 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 31 de diciembre de 2019 por Tinder Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-4722-2382-1
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Temas

Fiction
Historical fiction
Shakespeare
Black Plague
Hamlet
Anne Shakespeare
Agnes Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Child loss

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Andrew Gartzea (Bookwyrm) reseñó Hamnet de Maggie O'Farrell

I expected more?

3,0 stars

At the beginning, I loved how this book was so beautifully written and how the narrative guided me through different times, persons and emotions. But around the page 200, after the tragedy, I felt the pace of the narrative diverged from the initial one. Which, ok, makes sense because something has happened, but at the same time... I don't know. It feels like the first half was written from the heart and the second one in a more automatic mode or something like that. For me, it became boring and redundant. And while the ending, in a way, attempts to pull it out of that, I don’t see it actually succeeding.