Lila (ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Marilynne Robinson,one of the greatest novelists of our time,returns to the town of Gilead in the unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear,awe,and wonder.
　　Lila,Homeless and alone after years of roaming of the countryside,steps inside asmall-town lowa 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 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 a life on the run,living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them.Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation,the times they shared were laced with joy.After Lila arrives in Gilead,she struggles to harmonize the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband,which paradoxcally judges those she loves.
　　Revisiting the belovved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Glead and Home,a National Book Award finalist,Lila is a movingexpression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic

 

　　MARILYNNE RORBINSON is the author of the novels Home,Gilead(winner of the Pulitzer Prize),and Housekeeping,and four books of nonfiction:When I Was a Child I Read Books,Mother Country,The Death of Adam,and Absence of Mind,She teaches at the University of lowa Writers’Workshop.

　　“Beautiful work_demanding,grave and lucid^Robinson’s words have a spiritual force that’s vvry rare in contemporary fiction.”
　　——JAMES WOOD ,The New York Times Book Review
　　“Marilynne Robinson is so powerful a a writer that she can reshape how we read.”
　　——MARK ATHITAKIS,Chicago Sun-Times