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»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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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''[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.
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A brilliant and dramatic close reading of the first book of the Bible focussing on the complex relationship with humankind
''A work of exceptional wisdom and imagination'' DR ROWAN WILLIAMS, DAILY TELEGRAPH''Rich and provoking... Robinson has masterfully traced a sense of wonder back to its ancient, remarkable source'' JULIAN COMAN, OBSERVER''Reading Genesis is alive with questions of kindness, community and how to express what we so often struggle to put into words'' NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINEFor generations, the Book of Genesis, included in its entirety here, has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherence, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.Marilynne Robinson''s approach is different. Hers is one of an appreciation of Genesis for its greatness as literature, for its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture. She illuminates the importance of the stories of, among others, Adam and Eve; Noah and his ark; the rivalry of Cain and Abel; and the father and son drama of Abraham and Isaac, to consider the profound meanings and promise of God''s enduring covenant with humankind. Her magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God''s abiding faith in Creation.268 kr
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Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series—Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack—is an intergenerational story about faith, race, and love radiating out from the interwoven histories of two families in a small Iowa town to encompass all of American life: our ideals and beliefs, our contradictions, failings, and hopes. Over the past sixteen years, Marilynne Robinson’s now-mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, and the beloved characters who inhabit it, have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world.These four novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, among many other honors, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity. Robinson’s meditation on the paradoxes of American life has given us “something we only occasionally find in the vastness of existence: a glimpse of eternity” (Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal).
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.Both of these approaches preclude an appreciation of its greatness as literature, its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture. Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis, which includes the full text of the King James Version of the book, is a powerful consideration of the profound meanings and promise of God’s enduring covenant with humanity. This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God’s abiding faith in Creation.