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HamnetNATIONAL BESTSELLER and WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the 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

NATIONAL BESTSELLER and WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the 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 steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.

A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 07/21/2020
ISBN: 9780525657606
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2020 pg. 53
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cgilber
Chelsea, US
★★★★★ 5
Five Stars
Format: Hardcover
Very informative and should be read by those who seek deeper understanding
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Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2016
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Waukegan, US
★★★★★ 5
Five Stars
Format: Hardcover
Beautifully translated, a joy to read
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victor voronin
Belleville, US
★★★★★ 4
Translation not Literal!
Format: Hardcover, Format: Hardcover
The fist volume had a more literal translation then the second. If first Clement and Didache are in your reading list, Shepard of Hermas will fit there too!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2018
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Mrs. Bill G.
Louisville, US
★★★★★ 5
Good quality
Format: Hardcover
Good Quality
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Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2018
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Librarian
Carnegie, US
★★★★★ 3
At times it has been somewhat repetitive and tedious to read
Format: Hardcover
One of the earliest books in Christianity, The Shepherd of Hermas was probably written around 140AD, and avidly read for the first few hundred years. Likely its failure to become one of the recognized books of the Canon (Bible) had something to do with its fall-off in popularity. Today, while an Apocryphal book from the age of Apostolic Fathers, it seems arcane, and somewhat desultory. Nevertheless, one can see this book as a vision, a dream, or even an attempt to describe elements of purgatory. Both Latin and Greek copies, at least in part have been found, there are also parts missing which make reading it a bit of a challenge. At times it has been somewhat repetitive and tedious to read. I read the edition and translation from the Greek by Bart D. Ehrman: "The Apostolic Fathers Vol. II" from the Loeb Classical Library. The original author was claimed by some to be the brother of Pope Pius I. It is interesting to have a view into what the Council Fathers were looking at when deciding what to add to the Canon, and what not to add. The probings by our minds, between the dark and the daylight, are not so different a few thousand years later. How is God going to judge me and my sins? What must I do to prepare? What is within my ability and what is not? And where do I fit in His Kingdom?
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Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2014

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