num_pages: 210
description: 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."
language: English
title: Homestead
titlecomplete: Homestead
genres: American, Historical, World War II, Adult Fiction, Short Stories, Family, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 1369
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
publisher: Mariner Books