WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner

Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as "deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still."

Noi eseuri pe teme teologice, politice si contemporane, de catre castigatoarea Premiului Pulitzer Marilynne Robinson a descoperit spiritul uman in romanele sale renumite, printre care Lila, castigatoarea Premiului National Book Critics Circle si Gilead, castigatorul Premiului Pulitzer si a Premiului National Premiul Cercului Criticilor de Carte. In aceasta noua colectie de eseuri, ea isi antreneaza mintea incisiva asupra climatului nostru politic modern si a misterelor credintei.