Books by Marilynne Robinson

From one of the English language's great writers. Revisiting her beloved characters, Jack joins Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer; Home, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Lila, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the compassionate and heart-breaking story of the wayward son, Jack Boughton.

Efter den store succes med Marilynne Robinsons Gilead, genudsendes nu hendes poetiske og forunderlige debutroman, oversat af Inger Christensen. Historien fortælles af den forældreløse, stille og drømmende Ruth, som sammen med sin søster opdrages først af bedstemoren og senere af to bekymrede grandtanter for endelig at havne hos en moster, hvorfra hun ender med at flygte.

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.Now comes Home, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson and namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child. His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his father's old friend John Ames.

John Ames Boughton, Jack, er den fortabte søn af Gileads presbyterianske præst. Han er stukket af hjemmefra og lever som hjemløs i St. Louis. Her forelsker han sig voldsomt i den afro-amerikanske Della Miles, en generøs, uafhængig high school-lærer, der også er barn af en prædikant.Jack og Dellas dybtfølte, plagede og uheldsvangre kærlighedshistorie i 1950’ernes segregerede St. Louis resonerer med alle paradokser i det amerikanske liv - dengang og nu. En fortælling om skyld, skam, kærlighed, forventninger, skuffelse og et møde i poesien.Gilead-romanerne af den amerikanske forfatter Marilynne Robinson kredser om vores følelsers kraft og kompleksiteten i den amerikanske historie efter Borgerkrigen; de undersøger bl.a. hvordan Borgerkrigen stadig påvirker spørgsmålene om race og religion i det 20. og 21. århundredes USA. Jack kan læses selvstændigt.

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime. Robinson's prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the language of the bible, is nothing short of a benediction. You might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within' Neel Mukherjee, The Times'Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger - that at any moment, it might all go wrong. In Gilead, however, nothing goes wrong' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph

1950'ernes USA: Lila, som er både ensom og hjemløs, søger ly fra regnen iden lille by Gileads kirke, og her møder hun kirkens pastor. Herfra forandres hendes tilværelse sig radikalt.I årevis har hun vandret formålsløst rundt, men nu befinder hun sig pludselig i faste rammer i et lille samfund, hvor hun har slået sig ned som hustru til byens noget ældre pastor John Ames. Lila voksede op sammen med Doll, en ung og snarrådig vagabond, som tog hende til sig, og sammen levede de fra hånden til munden uden andre end hinanden at stole på. På trods af de hårde kår, var der imidlertid også glimt af ømhed og kærlighed i deres omflakkende tilværelse. Efter at Lila slår sig ned i Gilead, kæmper hun for at forene sin tidligere barske tilværelse med sit nye liv i faste rammer og med sin mands kristne verdenssyn.

New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important thinkers - admired by President Obama, and so many others - impels us to action and offers us hope.

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister and widower, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security.Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood of itinerant work. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand-to-mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a lucky knife to protect them. But despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life is laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to harmonize the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Orange Prize-winning Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence.

From the Orange Prize winning author of HomeAcclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss, loneliness and transience.'I love and have lived with this book . . . it holds a unique and quiet place among the masterpieces of 20th century American fiction.' Paul Bailey'I found myself reading slowly, than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through, for every sentence is a delight.' Doris Lessing

Essaysamling om en række af de temaer, der har optaget amerikanske Marilynne Robinson i forfatterskabet, bl.a. det sprængfarlige politiske og sociale klima i USA, nøjsomhed som ideologi, moralsk ideal og individualismen.