Látszólag az amerikai boldog ember regénye, valójában a boldogság kereséséé. John Ames - egy képzeletbeli, ám biblikus amerikai kisváros, Gilead városának lelkésze - 1957-ben, hetvenhét évesen visszatekint a saját és az ősei életére, hogy a testamentumát hátrahagyhassa hét éves fiának. Ennek a meg
Gilead
✍ Scribed by Robinson, Marilynne
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Macmillan; Picador
- Year
- 2004;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Edition
- First Picador edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN-13
- 9780312424404
- ASIN
- B000O76NMS
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✦ Synopsis
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novel
ANew York TimesTop-Ten Book of 2004
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Nearly 25 years afterHousekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. In the words ofKirkus, it is a novel "as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering." GILEAD tells the story of America and will break your heart.
✦ Subjects
Classics
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