The ninth hour

▶ Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award

▶ Won the 2018 Fermila Foreign Novel Award

▶ The film of the same name produced by Scott Rudin, the gold producer of Truman's World and No Country for Old Men, will be released soon

▶ A novel that every woman in trouble should read

▶ "Love is a tonic, not an antidote."

▶ As women, our life will be made worse by poverty and men.

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[Introduction]

On a short and dark winter day, Jim turned on the gas in his home in New York and caused a big fire. His pregnant wife was treated by the nuns who came to the monastery and worked as a laundryman in the basement of the monastery.

Their daughter Sally was born and grew up in the monastery and had a sweet childhood. Sally is deeply influenced by the kind nuns and hopes to devote her life to helping the poor neighbors. When she grew up, she ignored her mother's objection and set foot on the path of practice in Chicago Abbey alone.

However, on this overnight train, she saw the real poverty, ugliness and dirt in the secular world. Young girls will choose to continue to devote themselves to suffering, or pursue love mixed with greed and desire?

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[Recommended by celebrities and media]

◆ McDermott has expanded her writing territory, going deeper into darker places, vivid and amazing—— New York Times Book Review

◆ The Ninth Hour, like Colm Tobin's Brooklyn, wakes up the old world, a simpler and more restricted world. But McDermott also dealt with the grand and universal issues here - what is a good life, and how to live in the environment of "that static, full of the wild smell of death". Her novels contain hunger, guilt, guilt, redemption, secrets and depression, which were not fully understood at that time. Of course, The Ninth Hour is also about love, forbidden love, recognized love. The novel says that "love is a tonic, not an antidote", which also means that the novel itself, if it is not an antidote, it is also a tonic—— National Public Radio

◆ The accuracy of a master, a great novel—— Wall Street Journal

◆ Elegant and full of courage, The Ninth Hour is like a prayer candle in a dark church—— Time Magazine

◆ Shocking McDermott painted a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the Irish people in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century—— associated press

◆ Her readers, judges of the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize judges' favorite Irish American stories of McDermott are back—— Kirkus Review

◆ Wonderful Perhaps her best work so far—— Houston Chronicle

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[Editor's Recommendation]

▶ Conquer major literary awards and sweep the media list of good books!

Shortlist of the National Book Critics Association Award and the Kirkus Literature Award

Annual book selections of dozens of media, including New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine

"The accuracy of a master, a great novel."

▶ The epitome of the Irish American community in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century is a suspenseful story spanning four generations. If you like Colm Tobin's Brooklyn, you will also like this novel, Brooklyn from a female perspective.

▶ "As women, our lives will be made worse by poverty and men."

A novel that every woman in trouble should read.

The touching female friendship, emotional writing of women's pain and rescue. In the poor and difficult life, there are always some kind-hearted women who help their companions without return. Women are sympathetic to each other and know that it is not easy to raise children and take care of patients, so they are willing to lend a helping hand to the suffering people.

▶ "Love is a tonic, not an antidote."

"Love" is the eternal theme. Love is simple and complex. It transcends the secular world and is mixed with secular desires. In this book, there is love of lovers, love of mothers and daughters, and love of neighbors. Everyone chooses in love and feels the warmth and pain of love.