Treeborne A Novel【電子書籍】[ Caleb Johnson ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A woman reflects on the history of her small rural Southern town, and her family's legacy within it, in this "beautiful and mythic" literary novel (Daniel Wallace).＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞An Honorable Mention for the Southern Book Prize＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic changeーand when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it won't withstand much more. So she tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve Elberta's legacy at any cost; of his wife, Maybelle, the postmaster, whose sudden death throws the town into chaos; of her lover, Lee Malone, a black orchardist harvesting from a land where he is less than welcome; of the time when Janie kidnapped her own Hollywood-obsessed aunt ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る