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Marilynne Robinson

Fans of Marilynne Robinson's luminous debut, Housekeeping (1980), waited more than 20 years for her next novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead (2004), the story of elderly Reverend John Ames, who is writing an account of his own life so that his young son will remember him after his death. His wife, and the mother of that child, is Lila, a younger woman with an unspoken past who appeared in their small town. The same characters and setting return in Home (2008)—which, much to the delight of Robinson's many fans, was published just four years later—though that book focuses primarily on the Boughton family during the same time period. The patriarch of the Boughton family is also a reverend and a good friend of Reverend Ames.

With Lila, out this month, Robinson returns to the town of Gilead, Iowa, and to the Ames family. It is seven years earlier, and each day Lila's belly grows with the child who will become the intended recipient of her husband's letters in Gilead. We finally learn about Lila's early life, in which she was the subject of a sort of mercy kidnapping by a woman, Doll, who acts as her mother and protector. The two of them lead a hard life of itinerant farm labor before Lila finds herself in Reverend Ames's church. At its core, Lila is about the development of a mind. Just because she is unschooled does not mean that she is unaware, unperceptive, unfeeling. The ways that Reverend Ames falls in love with her mind and soul, and she with his, is one of the many rewards of Lila.

Idioma Inglés
Publicación 2014
Editorial Amazon
Categoría Narrativa


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