Homestead by Rosina Lippi-Green

Homestead by Rosina Lippi-Green

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."

Rosina Lippi, a former linguistics professor, is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning literary book Homestead, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1999. It was considered [A] work of tremendous depth, compassion, and sensitivity by the New York Times Book Review. Sara Donati is the author of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful historical fiction series Into the Wilderness.