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Devotion / Hannah Kent.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.K467 D48 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kent, Hannah, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Ocean travel--Fiction.
- Ocean travel.
- History.
- South Australia.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- South Australia--History--1836-1851--Fiction.
- Prussia (Germany)--History--19th century--Fiction.
- Prussia (Germany).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 417 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Picador, 2022.
- Summary:
- Prussia, 1836. Hane Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity... until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838. The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at odds with their King's order for reform. Forced to flee religious persecution the families of Kay board a crowded, disease-riddled ship bound for the new colony of South Australia. In the face of brutal hardship, the beauty of whale song enters Hanne's heart, along with the miracle of her love for Thea. Theirs is a bond that nothing can break. The whale passed. The music faded. South Australia, 1838. A new start in an old land. God, society and nature itself decree Hanne and Thea cannot be together. But within the impossible... is devotion.
- Notes:
- First published 2021 in Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781509863914
- 1509863915
- 9781509863891
- 1509863893
- OCLC:
- 1247839282
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