Marilynne Robinson – författare

"Marilynne Robinson är en av våra största nu levande författare, och i romansviten om Gilead har hon skrivit fyra mästerverk."Oprah Winfrey

"Jack är den fjärde delen av Robinsons lysande, djupgående romansvit om Gilead, och kanske är det den bästa boken hittills."Observer

"En triumf för romankonsten"Kristoffer Leandoer, SvD, i recension av originalutgåvan

Marilynne Robinson är en av de stora amerikanska romanförfattarna idag och hon nämns ständigt i Nobelprissammanhang. Med sin romansvit om den lilla staden Gilead har hon tagit både kritiker och läsare med storm, och på svenska har böckerna nått tiotusentals läsare.

Med romanen Jack återvänder Robinson till den värld hon skildrat i romanerna Gilead, Lila och Hemma. Den här gången vänder hon blicken mot Jack Boughton och hans möte med prästdottern Della Miles. Deras relation är dömd på förhand av flera skäl: söderns raslagar är ett av dem, Jacks karaktärsdrag ett annat. Ändå tycks den bara växa.

Boken är översatt av Niclas Nilsson, som översatt flera av de tidigare böckerna i serien.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER• A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD“Quietly powerful [and] moving.” O, The Oprah Magazine (recommended reading)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son.This is also the tale of another remarkable vision--not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.

»Hur hamnade du här, Marilynne. Vad var det som hände? Var det biblioteken?«Det var Barack Obama som frågade, i ett samtal med Marilynne Robinson i biblioteket på det universitet i Iowa där Robinson undervisar blivande författare. Men frågan gällde mycket mer än så: Hur kom det sig, undrade presidenten, att en kvinna uppväxt under enkla förhållanden i präriestaten Idaho blev en av Amerikas ledande intellektuella?I Vad gör vi här? tecknar Robinson svaret. Hennes essäer rör sig över vida fält, men söker alltid sina rötter i den amerikanska historien och hos de amerikaner som verkligen byggde landet: t ex puritanerna med deras envetna satsning på allmänt välstånd, fri utbildning. Hennes udd riktas lika mycket mot marknadsfixerad höger som mot enkelspårig vänster, som båda reducerar såväl samhälle som människa till ödesbestämdhet. Och hennes motstånd mot det Amerika som Trump vill representera är, naturligvis, oerhört starkt och välformulerat.Marilynne Robinson har vunnit en världspublik med sin trilogi från den lilla staden Gilead. Hon debuterade 1980 med Två par systrar, dryga två decennier senare kom genombrottet med Gilead som följdes av Hem och Lila, alla översatta till svenska. Hon är född -43, bor i Iowa och på den amerikanska östkusten.

"In the plain-spokenness of its language, the grace and dignity of its characters, the simplicity of its story and its intimations of spiritual transcendence, Housekeeping is a book that transformed how I see my place in the world." - David Marchese, The New York Times MagazineWinner of the Pen/Hemingway AwardA 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.

A profound essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Houskeeping and Lila, including Marilynne Robinson''s conversation with President Barack Obama. ''Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human'' BARACK OBAMARobinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and in her moving essay collection When I Was a Child I Read Books. Now, in The Givenness of Things, she brings a profound sense of awe and an incisive mind to the essential questions of contemporary life and faith. Through fourteen essays of remarkable depth and insight, Robinson explores the dilemmas of our modern predicament. How has our so-called Christian nation strayed from so many of the teachings of Christ? How could the great minds of the past, like Calvin, Locke and Shakespeare, guide our lives? And what might the world look like if we could see the sacredness in each other? Exquisite and bold, these essays are a necessary call for us to find wisdom and guidance in our cultural treasures, to seek humanity and compassion in each other. The Givenness of Things is a reminder of what a marvel our existence is in its grandeur - and its humility.

New essays by the Women''s Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson impels us to action and offers us hope.''Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human'' BARACK OBAMAMarilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize; and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson''s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display.

''[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human'' Barack Obama

''Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time'' Sunday Times

''Jack is the fourth in Robinson''s luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet'' Observer Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.

Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne''er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher''s child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson''s greatest achievements.

A brilliant and dramatic close reading of the first book of the Bible focussing on the complex relationship with humankind