Devotion
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the harsh, unforgiving landscape of nineteenth-century South Australia, two young women are bound together by a devotion that defies the rigid conventions of their devout German Lutheran community — Hannah Kent's Devotion is a luminous, achingly tender novel that chronicles the story of Hanne, a restless and misunderstood girl who finds her world irrevocably transformed when her family is forced to emigrate, and she meets the magnetic and free-spirited Ida. Kent constructs a world of breathtaking sensory richness, where the wild Australian bush becomes both sanctuary and witness to a love so pure and consuming it transcends the mortal and ventures into the spiritual. Kent, already celebrated for her debut Burial Rites, once again demonstrates her extraordinary gift for inhabiting the inner lives of women silenced by history, weaving together themes of faith, belonging, female desire, and the sacred power of nature. Her prose is incantatory — lyrical and precise in equal measure — drawing the reader into a trance-like intimacy with her characters. Devotion is a novel that quietly dismantles boundaries between the earthly and the divine, leaving the reader to wonder where love ends and transcendence begins.
Author: Hannah Kent
Format: Paperback
Published: 2021, Picador Australia
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the harsh, unforgiving landscape of nineteenth-century South Australia, two young women are bound together by a devotion that defies the rigid conventions of their devout German Lutheran community — Hannah Kent's Devotion is a luminous, achingly tender novel that chronicles the story of Hanne, a restless and misunderstood girl who finds her world irrevocably transformed when her family is forced to emigrate, and she meets the magnetic and free-spirited Ida. Kent constructs a world of breathtaking sensory richness, where the wild Australian bush becomes both sanctuary and witness to a love so pure and consuming it transcends the mortal and ventures into the spiritual. Kent, already celebrated for her debut Burial Rites, once again demonstrates her extraordinary gift for inhabiting the inner lives of women silenced by history, weaving together themes of faith, belonging, female desire, and the sacred power of nature. Her prose is incantatory — lyrical and precise in equal measure — drawing the reader into a trance-like intimacy with her characters. Devotion is a novel that quietly dismantles boundaries between the earthly and the divine, leaving the reader to wonder where love ends and transcendence begins.