WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
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
- ISBN10 0374187614
- ISBN13 9780374187613
- Publish Date 7 October 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 August 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English