Gilead

　　有一位名叫約翰．艾姆斯的傳教士，他77歲，有一個年輕的妻子和7歲的兒子。他隨時有心臟病發作而死的可能，因此在生日來臨之際，他拿起筆，給兒子寫了一封信──等兒子長大了就能看懂了。他在信?回顧自己和祖父、父親的一生，表達了他對生命與存在的思考。在寫信過程中，他碰到了自己有生以來最大的精神危機。跟他同名的年輕人──他老朋友的兒子──回到了小鎮上，令約翰．艾姆斯想到了一些痛苦往事和難測的未來，而且，他妻子對這個年紀相仿的年輕人頗有好感。為了理解與寬恕，他發現必須對自己有一個徹底的認識。

　　羅賓遜獲知得到普立茲獎後強調：「這是一本安靜的書，既不憤怒、嚇人，也不古怪、詭異。」

The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novel
A New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
A PBS Great American Read selection

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, 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 of Kirkus, 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.

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping--winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award--and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country (FSG, 1989) and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.