{"id":2819,"date":"2013-09-10T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/Discover-Great-New-Writers\/It-Seemed-Like-a-Dark-and-Tragic-Tale-A-Conversation-with-Hannah\/ba-p\/11239"},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:19:40","slug":"it-seemed-like-a-dark-and-tragic-tale-a-conversation-with-hannah-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/it-seemed-like-a-dark-and-tragic-tale-a-conversation-with-hannah-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"It Seemed Like a Dark and Tragic Tale: A Conversation with Hannah Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our vote was unanimous: The Discover selection committee readers and I were completely taken by Hannah Kent&rsquo;s moody and spellbinding debut, <strong><em>Burial<\/em><em> Rites<\/em> <\/strong>(Discover, Fall 2013).&nbsp; Set against a stark Icelandic landscape, a servant woman convicted of murder reveals the truth behind her story as she awaits her execution. This is terrific, old-fashioned storytelling, where language and landscape are inextricably bound to character and plot.&nbsp; Kent discusses the true story behind her debut novel, the &ldquo;complicated&rdquo; relationship between fact and fiction in <strong><em>Burial Rites<\/em><\/strong>, and how the volcanic, other-worldly island landscape became almost character of its own, among other things, here on the Discover blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our vote was unanimous: The Discover selection committee readers and I were completely taken by Hannah Kent&rsquo;s moody and spellbinding debut, Burial Rites (Discover, Fall 2013).&nbsp; Set against a stark Icelandic landscape, a servant woman convict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}