Home-回家

作者：Marilynne Robinson

书名：Home《回家》

中文简介：Home是由普利策奖获奖的美国作家Marilynne Robinson撰写的小说。出版于2008年，是罗宾逊的第三部小说，其中包括1980年的《Housekeeping》和2004年的《Gilead》。 这部小说记载了Boughton家族的生活，特别是父亲罗伯特·鲍顿牧师，以及罗伯特的两个成年子女荣耀和杰克，他们回到了爱荷华州吉利德。这部小说获得了2008 年洛杉矶时报奖，2009年橙色小说奖，并入围2008年全国小说奖小说奖。

英文简介：Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.

Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend. 

Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. 

Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. 

Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.