Marilynne Robinson Libros

Lila, de cuatro o cinco años, malvive en una casa de obreros inmigrantes en algún punto del Midwest de la década de 1920. Nadie parece preocuparse mucho por ella. Pasa el tiempo acurrucada bajo una mesa hasta que rompe a llorar y alguien la manda fuera de la casa. Un anochecer, una mujer llamada Doll se lleva a Lila. Sobreviven uniéndose a una banda de trabajadores nómadas en busca de empleo mientras el país se sume en la Gran Depresión. Pasan los años y para Lila la felicidad sigue siendo algo extraño. Doll ha desaparecido de su vida sin saber cómo y ella sigue su deambular, preguntando casa por casa si alguien tiene un trabajo para ella. Un día, para guarecerse de una tormenta, entra en una iglesia del poblado de Gilead mientras el reverendo John Ames pronuncia su sermón. Con el vestido mojado, los ojos tristes, Lila no había nacido para ser una mujer bella. A pesar de la diferencia de edad y de condición, Lila y el reverendo Ames vivirán una historia de amor como un milagro repentino e inexplicable. Lila huye de un pasado itinerante y brutal, y el reverendo recupera el sentido del amor cuarenta años después de la muerte de su primera mujer.

"Home" by Marilynne Robinson is a poignant retelling of the prodigal son parable, set in the same Iowa town as her acclaimed novel "Gilead." It explores the complex dynamics of family, secrets, and faith through the story of Jack Boughton, an alcoholic returning home, and his reconnection with his father and sister Glory.

From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD and HOME comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading

As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets

Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics. Housekeeping was chosen by Barbara Kingsolver for inclusion in our Modern Classics.

Um den erfundenen Ort Gilead hat Marilynne Robinson eine Erzählwelt geschaffen, die Roman für Roman weiterwächst. Gilead ist keine Idylle, sondern eine Stadt, die für den Leser zum Mittelpunkt eines ganzen Kosmos wird. In Zuhause kehrt Glory Boughton kehrt nach Gilead zurück, um ihren sterbenden Vater zu pflegen. Kurz darauf findet auch ihr Bruder Jack nach 20 Jahren heim, der Bad Boy der Familie, der zu viel trinkt und zu wenig tut. Jack eckt bei allen an - und doch ist er der Liebling des Vaters. Allmählich knüpft er ein enges Band zu seiner Schwester, hütet aber weiter ein großes Geheimnis - einen Konflikt aus dem dunklen Amerika, in dem Hautfarbe und Leidenschaft Hass gebären. Zuhause ist ein auf leise, präzise Art schonungsloses Buch, in dem Marilynne Robinson die Kontraste ihrer Welt um den fiktiven Ort Gilead noch eindringlicher zeichnet. Sie erzählt mit großer Meisterschaft von Scham und Würde, von Gnade und Vergebung, und wieder gelingt es ihr, dem Trost ein Zuhause zu geben. Eine unserer größten lebenden Romanautorinnen. Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

The Givenness of Things is Robinson unadorned, speaking her mind forthrightly, sometimes with frustration, often with dry humour . . . Robinson makes full use of her writerly imagination Herald

By defending the importance of individual reflection, this title celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. It explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud that was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization.

Neglected as a toddler? Lila was rescued by a canny young drifter and together they crafted a life on the run. Despite some petty violence and moments of desperation? their life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead? she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.

Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's 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, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, 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 transcience.