01516cam a2200289 i 4500 296055742 TxAuBib 20130924120000.0 130424s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013014305 9780316243919 0316243914 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Kent, Hannah, 1985- Burial rites [BOOK] : a novel / Hannah Kent. First North American edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 322 pages : illustration ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 Tóti, 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 sensationalstory they've heard. . . . BURIAL RITES evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place -- provided by publisher. 20130924. Women murderers Fiction. Iceland Fiction. Biographical fiction.