His Mother's House

By Marta Morazzoni, Emma ( Translated from the Italian By ) Morazzoni, Marta; Rose, Marta Morazzoni; Translator-Emma Rose

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0002712547
• ISBN13: 9780002712545
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Quiet, subtle, effective

Action is not a major feature of this work. Rather, it depicts the relationship between a Norwegian mother and her son who works in Germany. The relationship is built on restraint and predictability - the son being obsessively patterned in his behavior. The mother, however, has one creative outlet - her garden. Into this garden she has allowed a young woman, the daughter of the owner of the local garden supply shop. The son both envies the young woman's relationship to his mother and her garden and dreams of "courting" (or at least engaging in meaningful conversation with) the young woman. However, the son remains trapped on the outside - of human relationships and of the garden. Morazzoni has written this tale with such understatement that the reader is lulled into a sense of predictability, then jarred by the intrusions of the unpredictable. The result is the reader's sense of the book parallels the sense the son has of his position. This is a substantial authorial feat quite worthy of your time.