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Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.
The book contains 12 linked stories,spanning 1907 - 1977.
In the tiny Alpine village called Rosenau, each life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface. 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 never certain. 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."
The book contains 12 linked stories,spanning 1907 - 1977.
In the tiny Alpine village called Rosenau, each life has its place, and every variation ripples the surface. 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 never certain. 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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