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Burial Rites

Hannah Kent

Start date: July 1, 2017

Finish date: July 31, 2017

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Jun 25, 2016 Alana rated it liked it

Shelves: foreign-culture, historical-fiction

I very much liked the historical aspects of looking into the time period and the culture of the day and place (I know virtually nothing about Iceland except that it developed out of the Viking exploration and the Danish empire) but so much of the novel was conjecture and the author's wanting to humanize (victimize?) her character that it made fact and fiction difficult to tell apart. Granted, it's probably very much like novels about Puritan and Victorian eras and ideals in the U.S. (the Scarlet ...more

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Dec 04, 2018 Kathy rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-novel, debut-novel

I'd like to be able to push this to a 3.0 rating, but I just can't. I very much wanted to be able to rave about this book. There are passages that are beautifully written, and then there are sections that are just predictable. I've been to Iceland twice, once in the winter for a Valentine's Day long weekend, and if I didn't have a sense of the cold and desolation of Iceland, I'm not sure I would get it from this book. The pronunciation glossary at the beginning was nice, but probably unnecessary ...more

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