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Agnes on villi ja vapaa, kulkee mailla ja mannuilla haukka hansikoidulla kädellään. Hänet tunnetaan parantajana sekä kasvien ja eläinten tuntijana, joka ymmärtää luontoa ehkä paremmin kuin ihmisiä ympärillään. Agnesin suostuttua latinanopettajan puolisoksi pariskunta asettuu asumaan Stratford-upon-Avoniin miehen perheen kanssa. Agnesista kasvaa suojeleva perheenäiti sekä puolisonsa vakaa tukija ja kannustaja.
Mutta samaan aikaan kun miehen ura Lontoon teatterimaailmassa lähtee nousukiitoon, perheen rakastettu nuori poika menehtyy äkillisen kuumeen nujertamana.
Hamnet on todellinen lukuelämys, koskettava avioliiton muotokuva, kertomus perheestä jota menetys raatelee, ja samalla herkkä tulkinta eräästä pojasta joka nuoresta iästään huolimatta on kaikkea muuta kuin unohdettu: eläähän hänen nimensä kaikkien aikojen tunnetuimman näytelmän nimessä.
Hamnetia ovat rakastaneet niin lukijat kuin kriitikotkin, ja se sai ilmestymisvuonnaan 2020 brittikriitikoiden kansallisen palkinnon, voitti arvostetun Womens prize for fiction -palkinnon ja oli New York Timesin myydyimpien listalla.
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A beautiful story about family, loss, grief and love. At times the story felt long and boring. Not much happened. I did like how we got a past and present time line in the beginning that gave a good overview of all sides in the story.
Hamnet é um livro que surpreende. Inicialmente, achei difícil conectar-me com a narrativa, mas tudo mudou a partir do capítulo que descreve a propagação da peste, a mesma que infetará uma das crianças. A partir daí, o livro deixou de ser algo desinteressante, embora muito bem escrito, e tornou-se profundamente perturbador, marcante e fascinante. É daqueles livros que exige persistência para que se aprenda a apreciá-lo. O último capítulo, antes do segundo ato, é devastador. Termina de forma sublime com Agnes a testemunhar a dor de um pai que ela julgava insensível, mas que, na verdade, sofria tanto que desejava trocar de lugar com o filho. Quem não o faria?
I wanted to read this before I see the trailer of the film, then I saw the trailer and thought I better read it, then it shows up on tiktok with all those silly crying people only watching it, probably never read it, kinda skimming it a bit but at least introducing me to the soundtrack by Max Richter. So anyway I hurrird up and read it before tiktok ruined it and the film all the more.I enjoyed the book, enjoyed O'Farrell's style of writing. It is very cinematic and I can't wait to see if the film matches how I imagined it. I tried not to let the clips I had seen influence me too much.Her style didn't really lend you to becoming too close, or too involved in the story or characters. I don't think it matched the emotional depression depicted by all those crying people coming out of the cinema with their "after Hamnet" faces - streaming mascara, panda eyes. I did listen to the soundtrack and honestly that probably helped me cry a little more. I thought that it could have been more - the exploration of grief felt a little too shallow to me but I do not know how spoilt I was by watching the clips on tiktok. Still a beautiful book. Do think I ought to have read more of Hamlet though too begin with to pathways better understand the end.