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Anne-Kristin Mittag Between the hours of this fateful day, the story jumps back years. But O'Farrell isn't merely delaying the inevitable tragedy at the heart of her story; she's creating the context to help us feel its full impact on Hamnet's parents.
Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, MAGGIE O'FARRELL grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in London. )
In this book, William is simply a clever young man — not even the central character — and O’Farrell makes no effort to lard her pages with intimations of his genius or cute allusions to his plays. When she was just eight she contracted encephalitis, an experience she describes in a chapter called "Cerebellum (1980)" in her memoir, I Am I Am I Am.The illness did long term damage, leaving her physically weak and sometimes unstable, and likely brought on neurological traits … Pero lo que ninguno sospecha es que su madre sabe mucho más de lo que les ha contado.«La nueva novela de la excelente Maggie O'Farrell es más que un libro, es un acontecimiento literario [...]. From Colm Tóibín’s Tuskar Rock to Fleet, One and Tinder, there seem to be more and more publisher subdivisions.
Dead center in the novel, the author momentarily arrests the story of the Shakespeare family and transports us to the Mediterranean Sea. On Aug. 11, 1596, William Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, was buried.
A fictionalised account of the short life of Shakepeare’s son, Hamnet, is a work of profound understanding Un parto se complica más allá de lo razonable; a una niña le diagnostican una enfermedad incurable que la tiene encamada durante más de un año; una adolescente es agredida por un extraño mientras pasea por el campo; el avión en el que una joven viaja a Asia se precipita al vacío; una mujer se salva por los pelos de ser atropellada.
He was 11 years old. Hardcover
Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Life is too short to waste time on books you don’t like' March 2020 Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell review – tragic tale of the Latin tutor’s son That lit fuse races through the novel toward a disaster that history has already recorded but O'Farrell renders unbearably suspenseful.
, En esta novela O'Farrell aborda uno de sus temas predilectos, la familia, cuyo complejo funcionamiento disecciona con maestría.En Londres, en el verano de 1976, durante una ola de calor y una sequía legendarias, Robert Riordan, recientemente jubilado, sale de casa por la mañana, como todos los días, para comprar el periódico, pero esta vez no regresa.
87 And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own.Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood.
In this astonishing memoir, she shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life: The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive.
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As Ted's memories become more disconcerting and more frequent, it seems that something might connect these two stories-- these two women-- something that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation.Here Maggie O'Farrell brings us a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. ) Maggie O'Farrell’s most popular book is The Yellow Wall-Paper. La joven escritora Maggie O'Farrell es una de las voces más sobresalientes de la narrativa del Reino Unido.
Here, in a chapter just a dozen pages long, we get a gripping lesson in 16th-century epidemiology.