New Releases by Marilynne Robinson

Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment, and their father''s traditionalist values.

Historien foregår i byen Gilead i Iowa hjemme hos pastor Robert Boughton. Datteren Glory er (modvilligt) kommet hjem for pleje sin døende far og senere kommer også hendes bror - den fortabte søn Jack - hjem. Han prøver at forsone sig med sin far og knytter sig meget til Glory, der også har sine sorger.

In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality.By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, Absence of Mind restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.

Na twintig jaar afwezigheid keert een verloren gewaande zoon terug naar huis, waar zijn vader -die predikant is- niet lang meer te leven heeft.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gilead" pens a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations.

A hymn of praise and lamentation from a 1950s preacher man. Atestament to the sacred bonds between fathers and sons. A psalm of celebrationand acceptance of the best and the worst that the world has to offer. This isthe story of generations, as told through a family history written by ReverendJohn Ames, a legacy for the young son he will never see grow up. As John recordsthe tale of the rift between his own father and grandfather, he also struggleswith the return to his small town of a friend’s prodigal son in search offorgiveness and redemption. The winner of two major literary awards and a New York Times Top10 Book of 2004, Gilead is an exquisitely written work of literaryfiction, destined to become a classic, by one of today’s finest writers.

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 secrets about the family of preachers. 75,000 first printing.

In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, 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.

In these ten essays, Robinson brilliantly addresses subjects that have become the territory of specialists--religion, history, the state of society. The writing is "contrarian in method and spirit," according to the author.

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, their eccentric and remote aunt.

In this powerful, eloquent, and elucidating essay, Marilynne Robinson has pinpointed exactly the motives and the mythology and the reality behind the destruction of our planet. The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Great Britain is a perfect metaphor for twentieth-century genocide. Not the small, insane eruptions of eradication that took place in Hitler''s Germany, but rather that routine, day-to-day, thoroughly "democratic" envenomation of the planet by a current industrial magic (encouraged, or at least condoned, by almost everybody), which threatens to terminate everything on earth in the quite foreseeable future.Robinson''s book is as powerful a contribution to the literature of revelation and protest as was that seminal photographic essay by W. Eugene and Aileen Smith on Minamata''s disease fifteen years ago. It is as bloodcurdling as Rachel Carson''s Silent Spring, as thought-provoking and prophetic as the best works of people like Barry Commoner and Loren Eiseley.This is a work ofgreat intelligence and fine investigative reporting. It is also a lucid interpretation of history, and very important in its discussions of the roots of current dilemmas. And lastly, Mother Country is courageous, and marvelous literature at its best.

Ce beau récit américain (1981), raconte l''histoire de deux orphelines adolescentes et de leur tante qui les élève. C''est le roman de l''impermanence et du transitoire de la vie où seule dure la mémoire. Admirablement racontées, ces situations banales dans lesquelles s''enrobe le quotidien sécrètent une sorte de sagesse à la fois symbolique et réelle.

The papers of Marilynne Robinson consist of two items: an advance reading copy of The Death of Adam and a draft of Housekeeping.

Η αμερικανίδα Μέριλιν Ρόμπινσον, μία από τις σημαντικότερες συγγραφείς της εποχής μας, μας χαρίζει την αξέχαστη ιστορία ενηλικίωσης ενός κοριτσιού που μεγαλώνει στο περιθώριο της κοινωνίας μες στον φόβο και το δέος, τα χρόνια της μεγάλης ύφεσης της αμερικανικής οικονομίας τη δεκαετία του 1920. Η Λάιλα, άστεγη και μόνη, αφού έχει περιπλανηθεί επί χρόνια στην ύπαιθρο, μπαίνει στην εκκλησία μιας μικρής πόλης της Αϊόβα για να βρει καταφύγιο από τη βροχή. Αυτή θα είναι η αφορμή για να γεννηθούν ένας έρωτας και μια αναζήτηση που θα της αλλάξουν τη ζωή. Αφού παντρευτεί τον ιερέα της εκκλησίας και βρεθεί σε ασφαλές και προστατευμένο περιβάλλον, θα ξεκινήσει να αναζητά το νόημα των δύσκολων χρόνων της ύπαρξής της.

Αυτή είναι η ιστορία δύο ορφανών αδερφών που μεγαλώνουν σε μια μικρή πόλη χαμένη μες στην απεραντοσύνη της Βορειοδυτικής Αμερικής, όπως την αφηγείται η μία εκ των δύο, η Ρουθ, ένα μελαγχολικό και ονειροπόλο κορίτσι, ανήμπορο να πιστέψει σε κάτι μονιμότερο από μια στιγμή, μια θύμηση ή ένα όνειρο. Έχοντας βιώσει την εγκατάλειψη από μια σειρά από συγγενείς, η Ρουθ και η Λουσίλ καταλήγουν στη φροντίδα της Συλβί, της απόμακρης και αινιγματικής αδερφής της μητέρας τους και αγωνίζονται να ενηλικιωθούν σημαδεμένες από την απώλεια και τη μοναξιά. Η πορεία τους καθρεφτίζεται στις υπέροχες εικόνες από το παγωμένο φυσικό τοπίο που τις περιβάλλει σ’ ένα σύγχρονο μυθιστόρημα που ήδη από την έκδοσή του χαιρετίστηκε ως κλασικό. Μια αριστουργηματικά λυρική αφήγηση με επίκεντρο όσους δεν κατάφεραν να συνδεθούν ποτέ με έναν τόπο, έναν σκοπό, μια καθημερινότητα ή έναν άλλο άνθρωπο. για όσους ζουν ξεχασμένοι από την ιστορία προσπαθώντας να εφεύρουν μια ζωή χωρίς οποιαδήποτε στήριξη.

Em 1956, perto do fim da vida, a reverendo John Ames começa a escrever uma carta ao seu jovem filho, um relato de si próprio e dos seus antepassados. Ames conta-lhe acerca da tensão entre o seu próprio pai - um ardente pacifista - e o seu avô, cuja pistola e camisas ensanguentadas, escondidas num cobertor do exército, podem ser relíquias da luta entre os abolicionistas e aqueles que queriam votar pelo Kansas como Estado esclavagista no seio da União. E conta uma história dos laços sagrados entre pais e filhos, postos à prova nas suas relações ternas e tensas com o seu homónimo, John Ames Boughton, o teimoso filho do seu melhor amigo. Esta é também a história de outra visão notável, a da vida como uma criação maravilhosamente estranha. Conta como a sabedoria se forjou na alma de Ames durante a sua vida solitária e como a história vive através das gerações, difusamente presente mesmo quando traída e esquecida. Ao Meu Filho é um hino de louvor à existência assediada por Deus que o reverendo Ames ama apaixonadamente e da qual em breve partirá.