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Gilead

Yazan: Marilynne Robinson
Seslendiren: Tim Jerome
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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2005

National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction, 2005

From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of America's finest writers.

Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top six novels of 2004.

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames' life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears.

©2005 Marilynne Robinson (P)2008 Hachette Digital Genre Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction Samimi
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"It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime." ( Neel Mukherjee, The Times)
"Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger - that at any moment, it might all go wrong. In Gilead, however, nothing goes wrong." ( Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph)
"The gently American, finely judged narration succeeds in combining contemplation with vigour and in conveying a suggestion of mysticism." ( The Observer)
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The narrator of this beautiful book is an elderly priest in 1956 reflecting on his life in the small mid west town of Gilead. He is a tremendously appealing character -wise and sympathetic and flawed. It's a very human, sweet and profound book about families and small towns and troubles and belief. The last ten minutes had me close to tears and when it finished I found I'd been holding my breath. A joy.

A salve to the soul and a joy

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Deeply contemplative and philosophical, this story is a letter written by the elderly Reverend Ames to his young son. I thought the narration was excellent too.

Well worth all the accolades

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Literally. The constant immersion in various religious settings was enough to bore the pants off me. Long winded and uneventful. The narrator was excellent but unfortunately that can't save a book which buries you in someone's thoughts and zero actual activities. A short story? Sure. But this tome droned on painfully and I gave up midway. Searching online, it seems nothing happens the whole way through, just anecdotes. Endless, religious references and anecdotes. I tried, but it's a nope from me.

I'm a philistine

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One of the few books I haven't seen through. I found the narration so hard going that I returned it.

I couldn't get along with the narration

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- A book where an old man tells his story and the lessons he has learnt regarding his life, in a series of letters to his son. The man is a preacher and knows he is soon to die. The Guardian had it as one the greatest books of the twentieth century. Personally, it was okay, but didn’t really hold me and I didn’t really connect with it, but many reviewers feel otherwise.
- I did really like the following passage which is how I think a lot of people think:
“I have always worried that when I say the insulted or the downtrodden are within the providence of God, it will be taken by some people to mean that it is not a grave thing, an evil thing, to insult or oppress. The whole teaching of the Bible is explicitly contrary to that idea. So, I quoted the words of the Lord: ‘If anyone offend these little ones, it would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he were cast into the sea.’ That is strong language, but there it is.
Young Boughton just sat there grinning. That’s one thing that has always been strange about him. He treats words as if they were actions. He doesn’t listen to the meaning of words; the way other people do. He just decides whether they are hostile, and how hostile they are. He decides whether they threaten him or injure him, and he reacts at that level. If he reads chastisement into anything you say, it’s as if you had taken a shot at him. As if you had nicked his ear.”

might have expected more with such high praise

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