Homestead
Paperback
General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780395977712
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: May 5 1999
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
Each life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface of the tiny alpine village called Rosenau. Be it a mysteriously misaddressed love letter or a girl's careless delivery of two helpless relatives into Nazi hands, the town's balance is ever tested, and ever tender. Here is a novel spanning eighty years -- years that bring factories and wars, store-bought cheese and city-trained teachers -- weaving the fates of the wives, mothers, and daughters in this remote corner of Austria. To quote Rosellen Brown, the women in this haunting book are deeply and uniquely of their place, yet they speak (often wordlessly) of women's longings and satisfactions everywhere.
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