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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. The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless. Relevant. Passionate. Unified as a series - distinctive as books. A good book is great. A great book is essential. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her…mehr

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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. The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. Timeless. Relevant. Passionate. Unified as a series - distinctive as books. A good book is great. A great book is essential. '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
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Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson's non-fiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for 'her grace and intelligence in writing.' Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Süddeutsche Zeitung | Besprechung von 16.10.2018

NEUE TASCHENBÜCHER
Im beschädigten
Herzen von Amerika
„Man kann etwas zu Tode kennen und doch nicht das Geringste davon wissen.“, notiert Reverend John Ames auf dem Sterbebett an seinen sechsjährigen Sohn. In einem Briefmonolog erzählt er rückblickend von der Predigerfamilie im Mittleren Westen, vom Großvater, der im Sezessionskrieg für die Abolitionisten kämpfte und vom Bruder, der lieber Feuerbach statt Calvin studierte. Ein kleines Leben war das in Armut, Einsamkeit und voller Zweifel. Der alte Mann wirkt wie aus der Zeit gefallen und doch fragt er beinahe beiläufig nach der Bedeutung von Religion und Moral für die Gesellschaft, skizziert Rassismus als generationenübergreifendes Problem. Große Themen sind das, die auch heute noch die Seele der USA erschüttern. „Gilead“ heißt der fiktive Ort im beschädigten Herzen Amerikas, an dem die Ames-Familie dem Dasein trotzt, und der zugleich namensgebend für Marilynne Robinsons Roman ist, der ihr 2005 den Pulitzer Preis einbrachte. Zugleich ist er Auftakt ihrer Iowa-Trilogie, die sich in „Zuhause“ und „Lila“ mit John Ames bestem Freund Boughton und seiner Ehefrau Lila beschäftigt. Alle drei Teile sind schon jetzt moderne Klassiker, aber aktueller denn je. SOFIA GLASL
Marilynne Robinson: Gilead. Aus dem Englischen von Uda Strätling. S.Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. 2018. 320 Seiten, 11 Euro.
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Gilead is no less a masterpiece than Housekeeping Sunday Times