Burial Rites: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Here is an original new voice, with a deep and lovely grasp of language and story... Burial Rites is an accomplished gem, its prose as crisp and sparkling as its northern setting.”

  — Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March

• “Hannah Kent's gorgeous and haunting Burial Rites will touch your heart.”

  — Charlotte Rogan, New York Times bestselling author

• “A brooding, atmospheric debut.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “An excellent premise.... [and] a gripping tale about what Agnes was actually guilty of.”

  — New York Times

• “Enticing.... Kent...convincingly animates Agnes...showing her headstrong humanity and heart-wrenching thirst for life.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Bleak and beautiful.... Kent handles her starkly austere story with uncanny precision and an utter lack of sentiment.”

  — Washington Post

• “Gorgeously atmospheric.... [with] memorable, complex characters.”

  — New Yorker

• “A gripping narrative of love and murder that inhabits a landscape and time frame as bleak and unforgiving as the crime and punishment that occurred there.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Burial Rites is a debut of rare sophistication and beauty—a simple but moving story, meticulously researched and hauntingly told.”

  — Guardian (UK)

• “A magical exercise in artful literary fiction.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Rarely has a country’s starkness and extreme weather been rendered so exquisitely. The harshness of the landscape and the lifestyle of nineteenth-century Iceland, with its dank turf houses and meager food supply, is as finely detailed as the heartbreak and tragedy of Agnes’s life…[A] haunting reading.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “This compulsively readable novel entertains while illuminating a significant but little-known true story. Highly recommended.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “A novel based on the final weeks of the last woman executed in Iceland may sound off-putting, but Hannah Kent’s novel is involving and moving listening. As narrated by the talented Morven Christie, the story unfolds in a considered fashion…And her thoughtful pace beautifully evokes the isolated setting and timeless nature of the story.”

  — AudioFile