Gilead

Gilead is no less a masterpiece than Housekeeping * Sunday Times *
A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured * Sarah Waters *
Stunning... there are gems on every page of Gilead, but it is the whole construction that marks it as a great work * Daily Telegraph *
A visionary work of dazzling originality -- Robert McCrum * Observer *
"Grace is not so poor a thing that it cannot present itself in any number of ways", Ames tells of his son; the same can be said of this book, one of the best American novels in recent memory, so replete with grace that almost anyone should find a balm in Gilead -- Sarah Churchill * Times Literary Supplement *
Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph *
The slow pulse of Robinson's writing slows the reader's eye and mind, and creates in the reading process a literary version of the narrator's spiritual experience. Gilead reminds us that words have power to spare, to forgive, to do justice * Independent *
A novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering * Kirkus Reviews *
Her poetic, almost biblical style of writing... flows like clear cold water and is full of quiet power while remaining oddly conversational... People say they love these books, and I can see why. Quite how they can do so without discerning within them a serious, deep, patient but modest defence of the Christian proposition, I do not know * Mail Online *
It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that it seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime. Robinson's prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the language of the bible, is nothing short of a benediction. You might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed, moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within -- Neel Mukherjee * The Times *
Gilead is Marilynne Robinson's first novel since her highly acclaimed debut, Housekeeping, 24 years ago, and its measured prose manifests a spiritual power that well rewards the wait -- Michael Arditti * Daily Mail *
Rapturous... astonishing... Gilead is an inspired work from a writer whose sensibility seems steeped in holy fire * Elle *
So serenely beautiful and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful, that one feels touched with grace just to read it * Washington Post *
Poignant, absorbing, lyrical... Robinson manages to convey the miracle of existence itself * Los Angeles Times *
Gilead is a refuge for readers longing for that increasingly rare work of fiction, one that explores big ideas while telling a good story * San Francisco Chronicle *