Bücher von 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.

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.

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.

Ein kleiner Ort inmitten grandioser, übermächtiger Natur an einem Gebirgssee in den Rocky Mountains, Mitte der 1950er. Hier wachsen im Haus ihrer Großeltern die Schwestern Ruth und Lucille auf, die beide Eltern verloren haben. Nach dem Tod der Großmutter kehrt ihre exzentrische Tante Sylvie zurück, um die Erziehung der Mädchen zu übernehmen. Trotz aller Bemühungen ihnen ein Heim zu bereiten, ist es ihr nicht gegeben, einen Haushalt zu führen, wie es sich gehört - das Haus selbst scheint sich gegen alle Ordnung aufzulehnen, und im Ort werden die drei zunehmend zu Außenseiterinnen. Doch während die träumerische Ruthie sich vom unkonventionellen Vagabundenleben der Tante angezogen fühlt, sehnt sich die jüngere Lucille nach einem geregelteren Leben. Die beiden Schwestern werden einander immer fremder ...Eine gefühlskluge Geschichte über Heimatlosigkeit und Zugehörigkeit, voller Magie und Poesie. Die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Marilynne Robinson, hierzulande noch nahezu unbekannt, ist eine der wichtigsten Schriftstellerinnen der Gegenwart.