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Marilynne Robinson: Lila

She’d thought, I’ll do this first and think about it afterward. Now afterward had come and she had no idea what to think. I am baptized, I am married, I am Lila Dahl, and Lila Ames. I don’t know what else I should want. Except for the shame to be gone, and it ain’t. I’m […]

Kirjaluotsi Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Robinson Marilynne, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Yhdysvallat 22/11/2021 4 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Marilynne Robinson: Home

How to announce the return of comfort and well-being except by cooking something fragrant. That is what her mother always did. After every calamity of any significance she would fill the atmosphere of the house with the smell of cinnamon rolls or brownies, or with chicken and dumplings, and it would mean, This house has […]

Kirjaluotsi Robinson Marilynne, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press, Yhdysvallat 29/08/2021 5 kommenttia 4 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Margaret Atwood: The Testaments

Finally I reached my inner sanctum, deep in the Forbidden World Literature section. On my private shelves I’ve arranged my personal selection of proscribed books, off-limits to the lower ranks. Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Tess of the d’Ubervilles, Paradise Lost, Lives of Girls and Women – what a moral panic each one of them would […]

Kirjaluotsi Atwood Margaret, Kanada, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Vintage 26/09/2019 0 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää
Marilynne Robinson: Gilead

There’s a shimmer on a child’s hair, in the sunlight. There are rainbow colors in it, tiny, soft beams of just the same colors you can see in the dew sometimes. They’re in the petals of flowers, and they’re on a child’s skin. Your hair is straight and dark, and your skin is very fair. […]

Kirjaluotsi Robinson Marilynne, Ulkomainen kaunokirjallisuus, Virago Press, Yhdysvallat 11/08/2019 0 kommenttia 5 min lukuaika Lue lisää

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