Author: Marilynne Robinson
Translator: Hyang-ran Yoo
Publisher: Random House Korea
Hardcover | 312 pages | 190*132mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger
sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their
competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and
finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother.
The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in
the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a
spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.
It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant
weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human
history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward
adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and
the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.
"So precise, so distilled, so beautiful that one doesn't want to miss
any pleasure it might yield."--The New York Times Book Review
"Here's a first novel that sounds as if the author has been treasuring
it up all her life...You can feel in the book a gathering voluptuous
release of confidence, a delighted surprise at the unexpected capacities
of language, a close, careful fondness for people that we thought only
saints felt."--Anatole Broyard, The New York Times
"I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to
be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight."--Doris Lessing
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