American author Marilynne Robinson, one of the most important writers of our time, gives us the unforgettable coming-of-age story of a girl growing up on the margins of society in fear and awe, during the years of the Great Depression in the American economy in the 1920s. Lila, homeless and alone, after wandering for years in the countryside, enters the church of a small town in Iowa to find shelter from the rain. This will be the catalyst for a love and a search that will change her life. After marrying the church's minister and finding herself in a safe and protected environment, she will begin to seek the meaning of the difficult years of her existence.

A book about love that comes when life has already marked you, a book about faith, but also about all those things that cannot be expressed in words, no matter how deeply we feel them.

On the shortlist for the National Book Award 2015