MARILYNNE ROBINSON

Gilead es un pequeño pueblo de Iowa, un puñado de casas dispuestas a lo largo de unas pocas calles, tiendas, un elevador de grano, una torre del agua y la vieja estación del tren. Las generaciones se suceden en una vida en apariencia apacible que se organiza alrededor de las comunidades religiosas. Mediante una extensa carta que el reverendo J...

Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is named after the town in which it is set: Gilead, Iowa. The time is the 1950s, and John Ames, the town's beloved pastor, is dying of heart disease. Widowed early but recently remarried, John has a very young son. The novel is a final act of love: a letter to the boy, in which he looks back on hi...

This modern classic is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their grandmother, then of two comically bumbling aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. Their struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival.