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Marilynne Robinson: Jilie jia shu = (Chinese language, 2007, Ren min wen xue chu ban she)

272 pages

Chinese language

Published Jan. 5, 2007 by Ren min wen xue chu ban she.

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Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is Robinson's second novel, following Housekeeping (1980). Gilead is described as an epistolary novel, as the entire narrative is a single, continuing, albeit episodic, document, written on several occasions in a form combining a journal and a memoir. It comprises the fictional autobiography of the Reverend John Ames, an elderly, white Congregationalist pastor in the small, secluded town of Gilead, Iowa (also fictional), who knows that he is dying of a heart condition. At the beginning of the book, the date is established as 1956, and Ames explains that he is writing an account of his life for his seven-year-old son, who will have few memories of him. Ames indicates he was born in 1880 and that, at the time of writing, he …

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  • Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
  • Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
  • Children of clergy -- Fiction.
  • Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
  • Grandfathers -- Fiction.
  • Clergy -- Fiction.