Hamnet

WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times'A thing of shimmering wonder' David MitchellTWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER.A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help.Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week.Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

Dead Centre’s new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself.A single letter separates Hamnet from the philosophical heig

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR“Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life… here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you." —The Boston

'A bold undertaking, beautifully imagined and written'TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Str

I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal.Treat her thus.'Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father to accept on her behalf.Having barely left girlhood, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed.Perhaps most mystifying of all is her husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate her appears before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell, a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play. Soon to be a major motion picture from Chlo?Zhao, Oscar award-winning director of Nomadland, and starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley. England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting healthy and sick, old and young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor--penniless and bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfas

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.“A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies.” —Daniel Mason, author of North WoodsOn a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling e

大饑荒過後的愛爾蘭海岸，一場關於家族創傷、歷史幽靈與生存奇蹟的魔幻旅程。當沉默的父親在迷霧森林中崩潰，10歲的男孩該如何帶領父親找到回家的路？「土地與歷史一樣，只要發生過，就永遠不會消失。」1865年，大饑荒的陰影仍籠罩著愛爾蘭。10歲的利亞姆（Liam）跟隨性格孤僻的父親托馬斯（Tomás），參與英國政府的土地測量計畫，企圖用畫筆和儀器重新丈量這片被死亡洗刷過的海岸。托馬斯心中藏著一個執念：他要在官方的地圖上，強行留下這場災難的血淚痕跡。然而，在一次深入未知樹林的測量中，托馬斯遭遇了無法言說的震撼事件，精神徹底陷入瘋狂。面對突如其來的巨變、未完成的國家地圖，以及步步逼近的英國軍隊，年僅10歲的利亞姆，必須獨自學會與古老的森林、徘徊的幽靈，以及一隻無比忠誠的犬隻相伴，扛起測量儀，帶父親回家。這是一部交織著埋藏寶藏、交疊命運與 persistent ghosts（揮之不去的幽靈）的法術般小說。Maggie O'Farrell 用極具感官張力的文字，書寫心碎後的復原，以及在絕望深淵中爆發的愛與韌性。'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow'A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy.'A heart-bursting story of resilience and love' Louise Kennedy'A story that has such heart' Sunday Times'Darkly magical. A brilliant and powerful novel' Alice Winn'Magnificent... a feat of the historical imagination' Independent'Full of vigour... O'Farrell excels' New Yorker'As visceral as a novel can get' Yael van der WoudenOn a windswept penin

“Miraculous…. Brilliant…. A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer—or curse.”—The Washington PostThe extraordinarily received, deeply moving novel from the acclaimed author of I Am, I Am, I

《遊牧人生》、《永恆族》趙婷執導奧斯卡金像獎8項大獎入圍英國電影學院獎11項提名金球獎最佳影片原著小說愛爾蘭作家瑪姬．歐法洛，為莎劇背後被世人遺忘的孩子，創造一部情感深刻的作品趙婷．導演：「本書提供療癒的力量，使我們感悟與大自然、家人、先祖及社群之間深刻的連結。」保羅•麥斯卡．飾演男主角：「我是這本書的頭號書迷。即使你不是莎士比亞的讀者也能沉浸其中。」潔西•伯克利．飾演女主角：「這是關於如何透過故事超越哀慟，並以想像力窺見莎翁最私密的靈光。」當巨大的悲傷降臨生活，我們該怎麼面對？因瘟疫失去稚子的莎士比亞，奔向倫敦寫出偉大的劇作料理內心無以排遣的失落，那麼被留在老家的莎翁妻子安海瑟威呢？被哥哥守護著活下來的雙胞胎妹妹？帶著徘徊不去哀傷的她們，該向誰訴說呢？「被世人遺忘的孩子，終於有一部以自己為名的作品。」——瑪姬・歐法洛女性小說獎・英國圖書獎・美國國家書評人協會獎・達爾基文學獎 獲獎作品水石書店、英國卡蜜拉王后讀書俱樂部The Reading Room、紐約公共圖書館年度選書皇家莎士比亞劇團RSC黃金陣容盛大改編搬上舞臺影視改編確定由奧斯卡最佳導演趙婷執導！🏆 女性小說獎（The Women's Prize for Fiction）獲獎評語 🏆「非同凡響，展現出人類經驗的深刻內涵，緊扣著當代又歷久不衰。」共同推薦陳偉棻／作家焦元溥／作家、倫敦國王學院音樂學博士單德興／中研院歐美研究所特聘研究員辜懷群／京劇製作人、前臺大外文系教授彭鏡禧／國立臺灣大學外文系、戲劇系名譽教授簡莉穎／劇場、影視工作者王月／藝人、舞臺劇及電影監製▎藝術家與他的妻子一段相愛相守的時光，一場帶來劇變的瘟疫1580年代，一對住在英格蘭中部的夫妻，生了三個小孩：大女兒蘇珊娜，兒子哈姆奈特、么女茱蒂絲是一對雙胞胎。時間回溯至15年前，一名拉丁文教師面臨家道中落，為了償還家中債務，他一邊協助手套製作的生意，一邊從事家教，意外遇上令他著迷不已的女孩──艾格妮絲。附近居民都說她是森林女巫的女兒，手臂上總站著一隻紅隼，她具有豐富藥草知識，以及奇特的預言能力。家世迥異的兩人，最終奉子成婚，這段婚姻帶來的解脫與束縛，未必符合他們的期待。「真正的愛，要愛你原本的樣子，而不是你應該變成的模樣。」1596年，一個夏日夜晚，這個家的小女兒茱蒂絲不幸染疫，高燒不退。哈姆奈特四處求助，卻沒有任何人回應他的呼救──母親正在一

Once the great Glacier enclosed the Raumsdalian Empire. Now it's broken open, and Count Hamnet Thyssen faces a new world. With the wisecracking Ulric Skakki, the neighboring clan leader Trasamund (pol

Once the great Glacier enclosed the Raumsdalian Empire. Now it’s broken open, and Count Hamnet Thyssen faces a new world. With the wisecracking Ulric Skakki, the neighboring clan leader Trasamu

From the author of the breakout New York Times best seller Hamnet―winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award―an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' MediciFlorence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Moderna and Regio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to