Homestead (Winner Of 1998 Hemingway Foundation/pen Award)

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."

ROSINA LIPPI is the author of the critically acclaimed and award- winning novel Homestead, which won the 1998 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first fiction and was short-listed for the 2001 Orange Prize. Her five subsequent novels, published under the pen name Sara Donati, constitute the Wilderness series, a saga set in upstate New York during the post-Revolutionary period. Lippi lives in Bellingham, Washington.