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    <body><![CDATA[This suspenseful novel will draw you in and keep you up late at night.  The narrative is as stark and unforgiving as the Northern Minnesota geography it inhabits.  Told by a wounded teenage narrator, it touches on Hamlet and has that play's brooding atmosphere, but the story pulls away from the sour...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27297781">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this ended up being a real page turner. a modern retelling of Hamlet, I thought I knew what would happen...but it remained a fresh story the whole way through. and i always appreciate a mature young man as narrator. it's a little higher than a 4 for me.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although it is unfortunate that this book was published on the heels of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and both use Hamlet as a springboard to tell a modern story of murder/death and revenge, I found both books unique in the way that they handled the material.<br/><br/>In Undiscovered Country, set in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33173274">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer. When the muffled crack of a gunshot rings out, Jesse unaccountably knows something is wrong-and he races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle wound, apparently self-inflicted. <br/><br/>But would easygoing Harold Matson<em> really </em>kill himself? If so, why? <br/><br/> Haunted by the ghost of his father, Jesse delves into family secrets, wrestles with questions of justice and retribution, and confronts the nature of his own responsibility.  And just when he's decided that he alone must shoulder his family's burden, the beautiful and troubled Christine Montez enters his life, forcing him to reconsider his plans. <br/><br/>In spare, elegant prose, Lin Enger tells the story of a young man trying to hold his family together in a world tipped suddenly upside down.  Set among pristine lakes and beneath towering pines, <em>Undiscovered Country </em>is at once a bold reinvention of Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet </em>and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This first novel is 2008's rather less well known retelling of the story of Hamlet (cough - <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2731276.The_Story_of_Edgar_Sawtelle_A_Novel" title="The Story of Edgar Sawtelle  A Novel by David Wroblewski">Edgar Sawtelle</a> - cough, cough). A boy goes on a hunting trip with his dad. His dad ends up shot to death. Suicide or murder? An uncle is the prime suspect. <br/><br/>Lin Enger has written a taut thriller th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32416887">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise of the book drew my attention: a retelling of Hamlet in a northern Minnesota setting.  The stark setting of a small town in the grip of winter cold is a suitable backdrop to a tale of revenge. Enger's descriptions of both characters and setting are powerful and evocative. <br/>Several a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50847662">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer. When the muffled crack of a gunshot rings out, Jesse unaccountably knows something is wrong-and he races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle wound, apparently self-inflicted. <br/><br/>But would easygoing Harold Matson<em> really </em>kill himself? If so, why? <br/><br/> Haunted by the ghost of his father, Jesse delves into family secrets, wrestles with questions of justice and retribution, and confronts the nature of his own responsibility.  And just when he's decided that he alone must shoulder his family's burden, the beautiful and troubled Christine Montez enters his life, forcing him to reconsider his plans. <br/><br/>In spare, elegant prose, Lin Enger tells the story of a young man trying to hold his family together in a world tipped suddenly upside down.  Set among pristine lakes and beneath towering pines, <em>Undiscovered Country </em>is at once a bold reinvention of Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet </em>and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished listening to this book, and I can't remember who mentioned it in the first place to make me want to pick it up. Someone did! UGH! I suppose it's not too terribly important, I just wish I could make that connection, ya know?<br/><br/>Amazon summaries the book by the following:<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47843197">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lin Enger's <em>Undiscovered Country</em> uses Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet</em> as an archetypal template for a modern story about a sixteen year old Minnesota boy whose father seems to have committed suicide, but whose ghost appears to accuse his uncle of murder.  The boy, like Hamlet, seeks  revenge, but finds it not ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80968450">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this Hamlet-inspired novel in preparation for a reading program I'm planning for this summer. It was good, but I didn't love it. I'll still keep my eye out for other Shakespeare play plot-inspired novels. I know about &quot;the Story of Edgar Sawtelle,&quot; and am tempted to select it. Also ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51674545">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing in this modernized Hamlet redux is clean and clear, like the snowy Minnesota setting the author describes. But of the two Hamlet stories I read this year (Edgar Sawtelle being the other) I liked Edgar much more. ES was so much more than Hamlet, there were so many other interesting subplo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33653075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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