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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church – the
only available shelter from the rain – and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life.
‘One of the greatest living novelists’ BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES
‘Robinson is frequently named as one of America’s most significant writers . . . Her questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world’ SARAH CHURCHWELL, GUARDIAN
‘The work of an exceptional novelist’ ROWAN WILLIAMS, NEW STATESMAN
‘A sumptuous, graceful and ultimately life-affirming novel’ JAMES KIDD, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
‘Great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation’ NEEL MUKHERJEE, INDEPENDENT
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A masterpiece . . . Lila is a superb creation
Publishers Weekly
A masterpiece . . . Lila is a superb creation
Publishers Weekly
One of the greatest living novelists . . . [Lila is] just as wise, moving and genuine as its predecessors
Harper’s Bazaar
One of the greatest living novelists . . . [Lila is] just as wise, moving and genuine as its predecessors
Harper’s Bazaar
Robinson brings [the story] to pulsating life in prose of great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation
Independent
Robinson brings [the story] to pulsating life in prose of great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation
Independent
This superb novel can only add to [Robinson's] already stratospherically high reputation
Daily Mail
This superb novel can only add to [Robinson's] already stratospherically high reputation
Daily Mail
Lila is a really beautiful book: beautiful prose, beautiful story; morally beautiful too. After reading it the world seems more dazzling, fuller of wonder and mystery than it did before, as if you were newly in love. I wish I could persuade everyone who ever buys a book to read this one
Spectator
Lila is a really beautiful book: beautiful prose, beautiful story; morally beautiful too. After reading it the world seems more dazzling, fuller of wonder and mystery than it did before, as if you were newly in love. I wish I could persuade everyone who ever buys a book to read this one
Spectator
Deeply moving, almost transformative . . . frank and direct, but occasionally moved to ecstasy by the spirit
Sunday Times
Deeply moving, almost transformative . . . frank and direct, but occasionally moved to ecstasy by the spirit
Sunday Times
Tinged with heartbreaking beauty
Scotsman
Tinged with heartbreaking beauty
Scotsman
Although Lila revisits the characters of Robinson's previous books, Gilead, a Pulitzer prizewinner, and Home, a finalist in the American National Book Awards, and brings a certain completeness to their journeys, the book stands well on its own as a powerful search for the meaning of life as well as a touching and unlikely story of love and, ultimately, hope
The Times
Although Lila revisits the characters of Robinson's previous books, Gilead, a Pulitzer prizewinner, and Home, a finalist in the American National Book Awards, and brings a certain completeness to their journeys, the book stands well on its own as a powerful search for the meaning of life as well as a touching and unlikely story of love and, ultimately, hope
The Times
Robinson is a glorious writer . . . This novel, different in tone from its predecessors, stands beautifully alongside them
Financial Times
Robinson is a glorious writer . . . This novel, different in tone from its predecessors, stands beautifully alongside them
Financial Times
There is no one quite like this American writer, or quite as good as her . . . extraordinarily fluent and pitch perfect prose
Tablet
There is no one quite like this American writer, or quite as good as her . . . extraordinarily fluent and pitch perfect prose
Tablet
Measured and lyrical; the sound of this book is akin at times to the Cormac McCarthy of The Road . . . Robinson writes brilliantly about the way people dance warily around each other, never quite coinciding, stricken with longing and love
Literary Review
Measured and lyrical; the sound of this book is akin at times to the Cormac McCarthy of The Road . . . Robinson writes brilliantly about the way people dance warily around each other, never quite coinciding, stricken with longing and love
Literary Review
This third novel in the sequence is, in many ways, the most adventurous of all . . . Lila is the work of an exceptional novelist at the peak of her capacity
New Statesman
| Weight | 0.22 kg |
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| Dimensions | 198 × 130 × 18 cm |
