Gilead (Oprah's Book Club) av Marilynne Robinson

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<p><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><b>¿ OPRAH¿S BOOK CLUB PICK ¿ WINNER OF THE </b><b>PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION </b><b>¿ NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER</b><b>¿ A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>NOTABLE BOOK </b><b>¿ MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD<br><br></b><b>¿Quietly powerful [and] moving.¿ O, The Oprah Magazine (recommended reading)</b><br><br><b>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.</b><br><br>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