Housekeeping-家政

作者：Marilynne Robinson

书名：Housekeeping《家政》

中文简介：Housekeeping《家政》是玛丽莲·罗宾逊于1980年出版的一部小说。这部小说是普利策小说奖的最终入围者（罗宾逊最终将为她的第二部小说《Gilead》获胜），并获得 PEN /海明威奖最佳小说奖。2003年，“ 卫报无限”将Housekeeping命名为有史以来最伟大的100部小说之一，将这本书描述为“Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women.”《时代》杂志还将这本小说列入了1923年至2005年的100部最佳英语小说中。

英文简介：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, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, 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 transience.