A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, HAMNET is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play.
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a 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 medi...
A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, HAMNET is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play.
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a 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 one of the children will not survive the week.
Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright. It is a story of the bond between twins, and of a marriage pushed to the brink by grief. It is also the story of a flea that boards a ship in Alexandria; a kestrel and its mistress; and a glovemaker's son who flouts convention in pursuit of the woman he loves. Above all, it is a tender and unforgettable reimagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of seven novels, AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, which was shortlisted...
Maggie O'Farrell is the author of seven novels, AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, and THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award. Maggie has also written a memoir, I AM, I AM, I AM. She lives in Edinburgh.
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If you were to stand at the window in Hewlands and crane your neck sideways, it would be possible to see the edge of the forest.
You might find it a restless, verdant, inconstant sight: the wind caresses, ruffles, disturbs the mass of leaves; each tree answers to the weather's ministrations at a slightly different tempo from its neighbour, bending and shuddering and tossing its branches, as if trying to get away from the air, from the very soil that nourishes it. (查看原文)
A story beautiffully imagined and written. O'Farrel在这部作品里的写作方式和以往不同，更优美更诗意，既有纪录片般角度描述，也带着与这古典主题相符的节奏，缓缓道来莎士比亚之妻Agnes的故事。关于莎士比亚背景的历史事实留下的不多，已知的部分让读者在阅读之前就已经知道结局，且作者开篇也定下了这是关于grief 的基调，但在O'Farrel 的笔下这仍是...A story beautiffully imagined and written. O'Farrel在这部作品里的写作方式和以往不同，更优美更诗意，既有纪录片般角度描述，也带着与这古典主题相符的节奏，缓缓道来莎士比亚之妻Agnes的故事。关于莎士比亚背景的历史事实留下的不多，已知的部分让读者在阅读之前就已经知道结局，且作者开篇也定下了这是关于grief 的基调，但在O'Farrel 的笔下这仍是一个充满惊喜的故事--人物形象生动，尤其是主人公Agnes, 这位被后人们遗忘或丑化的女性（wives of great artists 基本都是这样的命运吧），终于饱满而有力量地被作者想象出来，跃然纸上，很让人欣喜。它虽是个想象的历史故事，但带着读散文的期待而并非读小说的心情，可能会更享受。(展开)
Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicenter, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns. This moment is the absent mother’s: the boy, the empty house, the deserted yard, the unheard cry. Him standing here, at the back of the house, ...
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1 有用 威叔在香港 2023-05-01 21:09:45 中国香港
2023.05.01. 2020年的爆款书，让默默写作/出版多年的Maggie O’Farrell一下成为明星作家。本书由RSC改编的话剧此时已在伦敦开演啦，借这个机会终于把书给看了：写的是真好啊！写“历史演义”的书有千千万，但视角独特又写的引人入胜的其实凤毛麟角。作者以莎士比亚小儿子哈姆奈特于1596年去世的事件，将全书切分成两部分：上部用双线交叉叙事分别讲哈姆奈特去世前一天之内发生的事和莎妻A... 2023.05.01. 2020年的爆款书，让默默写作/出版多年的Maggie O’Farrell一下成为明星作家。本书由RSC改编的话剧此时已在伦敦开演啦，借这个机会终于把书给看了：写的是真好啊！写“历史演义”的书有千千万，但视角独特又写的引人入胜的其实凤毛麟角。作者以莎士比亚小儿子哈姆奈特于1596年去世的事件，将全书切分成两部分：上部用双线交叉叙事分别讲哈姆奈特去世前一天之内发生的事和莎妻Agnes与莎相识结婚生子的过程，下部则讲哈姆奈特死后四年莎士比亚写下《哈姆雷特》、并在舞台上亲自饰演国王与“儿子”相会。本书最特别的是完全从莎妻角度出发叙事，从头到尾没有提一次威廉·莎士比亚的名字，而全以“父亲/丈夫/作家”等方式代替。故事结束在不朽的《哈姆雷特》舞台演出时刻，有力量有生命力，好书。 (展开)
10 有用 Mimi's Musings 2020-11-24 05:13:26
A story beautiffully imagined and written. O'Farrel在这部作品里的写作方式和以往不同，更优美更诗意，既有纪录片般角度描述，也带着与这古典主题相符的节奏，缓缓道来莎士比亚之妻Agnes的故事。关于莎士比亚背景的历史事实留下的不多，已知的部分让读者在阅读之前就已经知道结局，且作者开篇也定下了这是关于grief 的基调，但在O'Farrel 的笔下这仍是... A story beautiffully imagined and written. O'Farrel在这部作品里的写作方式和以往不同，更优美更诗意，既有纪录片般角度描述，也带着与这古典主题相符的节奏，缓缓道来莎士比亚之妻Agnes的故事。关于莎士比亚背景的历史事实留下的不多，已知的部分让读者在阅读之前就已经知道结局，且作者开篇也定下了这是关于grief 的基调，但在O'Farrel 的笔下这仍是一个充满惊喜的故事--人物形象生动，尤其是主人公Agnes, 这位被后人们遗忘或丑化的女性（wives of great artists 基本都是这样的命运吧），终于饱满而有力量地被作者想象出来，跃然纸上，很让人欣喜。它虽是个想象的历史故事，但带着读散文的期待而并非读小说的心情，可能会更享受。 (展开)
1 有用 阳伞公司 2021-11-22 13:21:43
叙事技巧高超，每个单词都有分量。结局教人痛彻心扉。
1 有用 钚Janus 2022-12-05 14:08:51 美国
大概是我读过的最希望于解读莎士比亚，运用华丽的辞藻和各种侧面描写手段，却内容空洞没有莎翁内涵的书了。前300页书可供学习写作技巧，但又是没有中心的“散文”，所以写Hamlet是为了纪念Hamnet的早夭，但是完全看不出来为什么会写出这样的剧？ 比尔盖茨推荐的，不一定是好书。慎入。
0 有用 王安安 2024-02-16 13:29:34 美国
这读得可太遭罪了
0 有用 3T!0γ 2024-05-20 13:12:53 福建
三星有点少四星不至于
1 有用 Shimmmy 2024-03-04 03:30:57 美国
不管他有多爱多痛，多才华横溢，逃避一切让妻儿独自面对都无法接受。
0 有用 brucas 2024-02-27 14:02:14 广东
7.5/10 文笔很美很流畅，但是感觉没有传说中的好。没什么代入感，不是很读得进去。可能我没什么哈姆雷特情结吧。对于西方文学中随处可见的通灵女也不是很有感。(广图116）
0 有用 王安安 2024-02-16 13:29:34 美国
这读得可太遭罪了
0 有用 Carlo 2024-02-07 18:01:13 湖北
一直到Judith和弟弟同死神交换还挺好，后头的僵硬冲突把Agnes营造了大半本书的灵气丢了个干净。