Welcome Readers!
This month the Online Reading Challenge travels to Iceland. Our Main title for October is Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Here’s a quick summary from the publisher.
Set against Iceland’s stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Set against Iceland’s stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tv=ti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes’s death looms, the farmer’s wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they’ve heard.
Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
Looking for some other books set in Iceland? Try any of the following.
- The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jónasson
- The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea
- Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason
- Kalmann by Joachim Schmidt
- Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
- Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson
- Touch by Olaf Olafsson
As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!