Books by Kent Haruf

'I loved Our Souls at Night' David NichollsOur Souls at Night is a deeply affecting love story, adapted into a film starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.This is a love story. A story about growing old with grace.Addie Moore and Louis Waters have been neighbours for years. Now they both live alone, their houses empty of family, their quiet nights solitary. Then one evening Addie pays Louis a visit.Soon to be a major film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Their brave adventures form the beating heart of Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf's exquisite final novel.

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize.One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells and good wishes, Dad's wife and daughter work to make his final days as comfortable as possible, knowing all is tainted by the heart-break of an absent son. Next door, a little girl with a troubled past moves in with her grandmother, and down town another new arrival, the Reverend Rob Lyle, attempts to mend strained relationships of his own.Utterly beautiful, and devastating yet affirming, Kent Haruf's Benediction explores the pain, the compassion and the humanity of ordinary people.

Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together.Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But when he fails to make the grade as a college footballer, and takes a job with the local farmers' cooperative, it seems he has finally settled into the rhythm and routine of everyday life. Outward appearances can be deceptive, however, as Jack proves: returning from a weekend conference with a new wife in tow, then leaving her behind and skipping town with a bundle of other folks' money. Nearly a decade later, no one has forgiven or forgotten, and when Jack reappears, resentment runs high. Once again though, it is Jack whose presence - even more than his eight-year absence - proves the most devastating.

In The Tie That Binds, his critically acclaimed first novel, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough. Narrated by her neighbour, Edith's tragedies unfold: a tough childhood, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. She is a woman who sacrifices everything in the name of family - until she is forced to reclaim her freedom in one dramatic and unexpected gesture. Breathtaking and truthful, The Tie That Binds is a powerful tribute to the demands of rural life, and to the tenacity of the human spirit.

Harold and Raymond McPheron are finally waving goodbye to their beloved Victoria, a young mother with a first chance at an education. Betty and Luther Wallace are struggling to keep their heads above water and their children out of care, and in the same town young friends Dena and DJ find solace away from their own troubled homes. As these stories unfold and entwine, tragedy strikes the McPheron household and life is thrown irrevocably off course. Heart-breaking yet hopeful, Kent Haruf's Eventide is an unflinching depiction of the hardships of small-town life, lit up by astonishing moments of redemption.

Preceding the astonishing Eventide and Benediction, this is Kent Haruf's first novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado.

Et lavmælt litterært mesterværk fra prisbelønnet amerikansk forfatter. En vidunderlig og bevægende historie om kærlighed og venskab og om at turde gribe lykken. Addie er enke og bor alene i sit store hus. Børnene er for længst flyttet hjemmefra, og nætterne er lange og ensomme, når man ikke har nogen at tale med. En dag aflægger hun sin nabo, enkemanden Louis, et uventet besøg. Efter den første forbløffelse pakker han sin tandbørste og sin pyjamas, og fra den dag sover Louis hos Addie. Det bliver begyndelsen på et stille eventyr om venskab og kærlighed og om at holde fast i de ting, der betyder noget i livet. Med Vores sjæle om natten introduceres Kent Haruf (1943-2014) for første gang på dansk. Han har modtaget et væld af internationale priser for sine romaner og regnes i dag for en af de helt store forfattere i amerikansk litteratur. Pressen skriver: »Det er en svær stil, den konsekvent underspillede. Men Haruf leverer som i sine foregående romaner varen som hverdagens stoiske kronikør, samtidig med at han sætter en fed streg under kærligheden. Det er gammeldags amerikansk romankunst.« – Morten Scholz, Weekendavisen »Jeg er vild med den.« ***** – Claus Christian Koch, Fyns Stiftstidende »Vores sjæle om natten handler om livet og døden, om at være bange for ikke at have levet, før man dør […] Om at finde lykken, men også om at være i klemme mellem lykken og pligten, familien og sig selv. Den er stilfærdig og ren, varm og sørgelig.« ****** – Ulla Hinge Thomsen, bogliv.dk »En sand perle om stille eksistenser og modet til at træffe livsændrende valg selv sent i livet. Kent Haruf er en brillant fortæller […] Der er en underliggende alvor som blødes op med fortræffelig humor og vidunderlige rappe replikker.« – Pia Bechmann, Litteratursiden.dk »Vores sjæle om natten er en hjertevarm bog, hvor små ting i hverdagen får en helt ny betydning. […] en kort roman fyldt med humor og kærlighed.« – Annette Nygaard, Dagbladet Ringkøbing-Skjern