Háztartás

Author: Marilynne Robinson
Binding method: hardcover, with protective cover
Publication: 2020
Publisher: Magvető Publishing House
Page number: 248
Household is rightly included among the best novels of all time. Ruth and Lucille live in a small town in Idaho with their strict grandmother and, when she dies, their eccentric aunt Sylvie. Their mother abandoned them and steered her car off a cliff into a nearby lake, the same lake where the girls' grandfather had previously been killed in a train accident. Ruth and Lucille process not only grief, but also Sylvie's peculiar child-rearing methods and vagabond lifestyle: while ...