內容簡介
內容簡介 哈姆奈特 Hamnet 金球獎2026|趙婷執導奪劇情組最佳電影全美書評人協會獎得主・《紐約時報》暢銷書 改編電影榮獲 2025 多倫多影展觀眾票選最佳影片、2025 聖地亞哥影展觀眾票選獎最佳影片, 由 潔西・巴克利(Jessie Buckley)、保羅・麥斯卡(Paul Mescal)、艾蜜莉・華森(Emily Watson)、喬・艾文(Joe Alwyn) 主演,並由 奧斯卡金像獎得主趙婷(Chloé Zhao) 執導。《婚姻肖像》的暢銷作家,帶來一部深刻動人的小說——《哈姆奈特》(Hamnet),書寫莎士比亞十一歲之子的死亡,以及通往其偉大戲劇誕生之前,那段無法言說的歲月。英格蘭,1580 年。 黑死病悄然蔓延,成為籠罩大地的永恆威脅,感染健康者、病者、老者與孩童。末日似乎迫近,但生命仍在繼續。貧困的拉丁語家教威廉・莎士比亞,遇見了自由奔放、充滿野性靈魂的艾格妮絲。她行走於家族土地之上,手套上棲著獵鷹,因其療癒天賦而遠近馳名——她比任何人都更懂植物、藥劑與自然的低語,卻始終與人群保持距離。兩人深受彼此吸引,展開熾熱戀情,迅速步入婚姻,並育有三個孩子,過著看似安穩而幸福的生活。然而,當威廉遠赴倫敦,戲劇事業迅速起飛之際,艾格妮絲必須獨自撐起家庭。突如其來的悲劇降臨——他們摯愛的幼子因急病驟然離世——讓這段曾經堅不可摧的婚姻,承受前所未有的考驗。悲痛、內疚、沉默與距離,逐漸在兩人之間蔓延。這場失去,不僅撕裂了一個家庭,也悄然改變了文學史。多年後,它化為莎士比亞最不朽的悲劇之一——〈哈姆雷特〉。由華裔導演趙婷再度改編文學作品,與原著共同改編獲獎小說《哈姆奈特》,將這段複雜而私密的情感旅程搬上大銀幕,重探偉大劇作家創作的起源。人類最原始的感性,與自然的神祕氣息彼此呼應;保羅・麥斯卡與潔西・巴克利穿梭林蔭之間,展現靈魂的相遇與共振,從相識、相戀到相伴,一同直面生命的無常。愛不會消逝—— 它只會蛻變,成為另一種形式的人生風景。NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Now a major motion picture starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by ACADEMY AWARD(R) winner Chloé Zhao.The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play."Miraculous. . . . Brilliant. . . . A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer--or curse. . . . A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death." --Ron Charles, The Washington PostEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.A young Latin tutor--penniless and bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Now a major motion picture starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by ACADEMY AWARD(R) winner Chloé Zhao. The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play. "Miraculous. . . . Brilliant. . . . A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer--or curse. . . . A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor--penniless and bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.
作者介紹
作者介紹 MAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction), The Marriage Portrait, After You'd Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.