New Releases by Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson’s speech for the 2026 Jon Fosse Lecture, delivered at the Norwegian Royal Palace. In a time of fragmentation and a constantly narrowing public discourse, Marilynne Robinson looks to writers and thinkers of the past in search of what we have lost along the way. In the work of Edgar Allan Poe, John Calvin, and others, Robinson finds a forgotten humanism, one that unifies faith, metaphysics, and freedom of thought. These rich veins contrast with the restricted modern understanding of what a human being is and can be. Nevertheless, our creativity, along with the free space offered by literature, gives us reason for hope. This essay is a powerful exhortation to rediscover our spiritual and human obligations. On Faith and Freedom of Thought is the written edition of the 2026 Jon Fosse Lecture, a second in this series of lectures on literature and art—named in honor of the Norwegian laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

L’esplorazione del primo libro della Bibbia è un viaggio nel corso del quale Marilynne Robinson riflette sulla condizione umana, la capacità di fare il bene e il male, la libertà e la responsabilità morale, il valore del patto e la forza della legge, la complessità della giustizia divina e il suo mistero, il senso del sacrificio e della ricompensa, il peso dell’eredità, della benedizione e della cura provvidenziale di Dio. È una meditazione profonda che irradia gratitudine per la costanza e la benevolenza della fiducia incrollabile di Dio in tutte le sue creature. In questo itinerario, una delle più grandi scrittrici cristiane viventi mostra l’inesauribile ricchezza letteraria e teologica di Genesi, svelandone la complessità e la ricercatezza narrativa e offrendo uno spaccato originale sulla straordinaria bellezza delle Scritture e sul loro potere ininterrotto di interrogare l’attualità. Marilynne Robinson è una delle più grandi e importanti scrittrici statunitensi del XXI secolo. Nel 2012 ha ricevuto la National Humanities Medal, insignitale dal presidente Barack Obama per «la sua grazia e intelligenza nella scrittura». Con il romanzo Gilead (2004), ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer 2005 per la narrativa e il National Book Critics Circle Award; Casa (2008) è stato premiato con l’Orange Prize e il Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila (2014) ha ricevuto il NationalBook Critics Circle Award; mentre Jack (2020) è stato annoverato fra i bestseller dal New York Times. Il suo primo romanzo, Le cure domestiche (1980), ha vinto il PEN/Hemingway Award per la migliore opera prima.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One 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.

In tutta la sua opera, narrativa e saggistica, Marilynne Robinson ha costruito una critica appassionata della società contemporanea – con la sua dipendenza dalla tecnologia e il suo materialismo – nel nome di un profondo umanesimo che recuperi il nostro valore in quanto creature divine, per quanto fallibili e predatorie. Nei diciassette saggi di questa raccolta, Robinson spazia – con la profondità e la limpidezza che i suoi lettori hanno imparato a conoscere – lungo un ampio spettro di temi: dalla capacità dei grandi pensatori del passato (Calvino, Locke, Shakespeare) di influenzare e guidare le nostre vite, all'ascesa di un'élite autoproclamatasi tale, che rischia di corrompere la vita politica e religiosa degli Stati Uniti, allontanandola dai valori della democrazia e della fede. Una lettura indispensabile, per comprendere e apprezzare ancor meglio la lucida visione che ha ispirato romanzi memorabili come Gilead e Lila, e per guardare con nuova consapevolezza l'America e la crisi profonda che ne sta prosciugando il sogno.

"A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa"--

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A new classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping. The long-awaited fourth and last of Marilynne Robinson''s Gilead novels--one of the great works of contemporary literature. With Jack, Robinson takes her readers back to the small town of Gilead, Iowa, in 1956, to tell the story of John Ames Boughton, the godson of John Ames and the black sheep of his family. He''s a ne-er do well and the beloved prodigal son who falls in love with and marries Della, a beautiful and brilliant African-American teacher he meets in segregated St. Louis. Their fraught, beautiful romance is one of Robinson''s greatest achievements.

Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson''s Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille''s struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.

The Book Club Kindles contain selections from the library's Table Talk and Cover to Cover Book Clubs as well as celebrity book club picks from Oprah Winfrey, Jenna Bush Hager, and Reese Witherspoon.

Um den erfundenen Ort Gilead hat Marilynne Robinson eine Erzählwelt geschaffen, die Roman für Roman weiterwächst. Gilead ist keine Idylle, sondern eine Stadt, die für den Leser zum Mittelpunkt eines ganzen Kosmos wird. In »Zuhause« kehrt Glory Boughton nach Gilead zurück, um ihren sterbenden Vater zu pflegen. Kurz darauf findet auch ihr Bruder Jack nach 20 Jahren heim, der »Bad Boy« der Familie, der zu viel trinkt und zu wenig tut. Jack eckt bei allen an – und doch ist er der Liebling des Vaters. Allmählich knüpft er ein enges Band zu seiner Schwester, hütet aber weiter ein großes Geheimnis – einen Konflikt aus dem dunklen Amerika, in dem Hautfarbe und Leidenschaft Hass gebären. »Zuhause« ist ein auf leise, präzise Art schonungsloses Buch, in dem Marilynne Robinson die Kontraste ihrer Welt um den fiktiven Ort Gilead noch eindringlicher zeichnet. Sie erzählt mit großer Meisterschaft von Scham und Würde, von Gnade und Vergebung, und wieder gelingt es ihr, dem Trost ein Zuhause zu geben. »Eine unserer größten lebenden Romanautorinnen.« Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

Non tutti sanno che tra Le cure domestiche, il romanzo di esordio con il quale Marilynne Robinson divenne una celebrità negli Stati Uniti, e Gilead, la sua seconda opera narrativa, premiata con il Pulitzer e primo capitolo di una magnifica trilogia completata da Casa e Lila, sono trascorsi ben ventotto anni: dal 1980 al 2008. E non tutti sanno che in questo trentennio o poco meno la Robinson, ben lungi dal rimanere inattiva, si è cimentata ripetutamente con il genere saggistico, regalando ai suoi lettori una serie ininterrotta di perle. Spaziando dalla meditazione teologica a riflessioni illuminanti sulla letteratura, dal ricordo autobiografico alla disamina di un'intera nazione e delle sue trasformazioni, i saggi di Quando ero piccola leggevo libri affrontano da un'angolazione nuova e complementare i grandi temi che sono al centro della sua narrativa - il clima politico e sociale degli Stati Uniti, la centralità della fede religiosa e la generosità di sguardo che ne deriva, la natura dell'individualismo americano e il mito del West - e compongono il ritratto intimo e ricco di sfaccettature di un'autrice che è considerata un vero e proprio classico contemporaneo.

A new essay collection assesses today''s political climate and the mysteries of faith, from the influence of intellectual minds on society''s political consciousness to the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life.

"The story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille''s struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience."--

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead with 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 the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa 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, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering 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 life on the run, existing 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 her husband''s gentle Christian worldview, which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead and and Orange Prize–winning Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become a classic.

In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today. A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life''s mystery, The Death of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., "a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book."

A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice A New York Times Bestseller A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Gilead Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor. In "Austerity as Ideology," she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In "Open Thy Hand Wide" she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in "When I Was a Child," one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her childhood in Idaho becomes an exploration of individualism and the myth of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our essential writers.

Na twintig jaar afwezigheid keert een verloren gewaande zoon terug naar huis, waar zijn vader -die predikant is- niet lang meer te leven heeft.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gilead" pens a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations.

昨天晚上,我对你说,说不定哪天我就走了。你问:“上哪儿?”我说:“到主那儿。”你又问“为什么?”我说:“因为我老了。”你说:“我不觉得你老”......

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER• OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER• A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD “Quietly powerful [and] moving.” O, The Oprah Magazine (recommended reading) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part. In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames''s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend''s wayward son. This is also the tale of another remarkable vision--not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames''s soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.

"Britain, the welfare state and nuclear pollution"--Dust jacket.

Ce beau récit américain (1981), raconte l'histoire de deux orphelines adolescentes et de leur tante qui les élève. C'est le roman de l'impermanence et du transitoire de la vie où seule dure la mémoire. Admirablement racontées, ces situations banales dans lesquelles s'enrobe le quotidien sécrètent une sorte de sagesse à la fois symbolique et réelle.

Ilustratii generate pe computer aduc la viata lumea preistorica CĂLĂTORIE în timp în Mezozoic, când dinozauri fiorosi cutreierau uscatul, pterozauri ameninţători patrulau cerul si mările erau pline de reptile uimitoare. VEZI fiecare animal preistoric în detalii inedite si de un realism fascinant, pe baza celor mai noi cercetări despre dinozauri. AFLĂ cum trăiau aceste creaturi fascinante si ce ne spun despre ele fosilele descoperite.