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"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"--… (més)
Tenia molta espectativa amb aquesta novela. No m’ha decebut, però coneixent altres noveles de l’autora potser esperava unamica més. tot i així es tracta d’una gran història, on esperes que el protagonista sigui el Hammet, el fill de Shakespeare, o el propi dramaturg, però en realitat és un homenatge encobert, o potser no tant, a la seva dona, com tantes d’altres grans dones que han acompanyat els grans homes de la història. ( )
Explica la història d'una dona amb una mort durant la peste que fa que li canvíi la seva vida i d'un marit que es dedicarà al teatre donant nom a una de les obres més importants de la història "Hamlet" M'entusiasma com escriu aquesta dona, sembla que siguis dins del relat. La novel·la molt punyent m'ha fet plorar. ( )
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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
—Hamlet, Act IV, scene v
Hamnet and Hamlet are in fact the same name, entirely interchangeable in Stratford records in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
—Steven Greenblatt, "The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet," New York Review of Books (October 21, 2004)
I am dead: Thou livest; . . . draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story
—Hamlet, Act V, scene ii
Dedicatòria
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To Will
Primeres paraules
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A boy is coming down a flight of stairs.
Un niño baja unas escaleras
Citacions
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Agnes believes her position, as new daughter-in-law, to be ambiguous, somewhere between apprentice and hen.
The branches of the forest are so dense you cannot feel the rain.
There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way.
What is the word, Judith asks her mother, for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin? ... If you were a wife , Judith continues, and your husband dies, then you are a widow. And if its parents die, a child becomes an orphan. But what is the word for what I am? ... Maybe there isn't one, she suggests. Maybe not, says her mother.
She will take a person for who they are, not what they are not or ought to be. (21 %)
The lines and lines of apples are moving, jolting, rocking on the shelves (22 %)
He breathes in. He breathes out. He turns his head and breathes into the whorls of her ear; he breathes in his strength, his health, his all. You will stay, is what he whispers, and I will go. He sends these words into her: I want you to take my life. It shall be yours I give it to you. (55 %)
She has a paring knife in her left hand - always her left - and she peels the skin from it (apple). It drips from the blades in big, green curls, like the hair of a mermaid. (75 %)
He has, Agnes sees, done what any father would wish to do, to exchange his child's suffering for his own to take his place, to offer himself up in his child's stand so that the boy might live. (99 %)
Darreres paraules
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The ghost turns his head towards her, as he prepares to exit the scene. He is looking straight at her, meeting her gaze, as he speaks his final words: "Remember me."
"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"--
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