“In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears.
This is also the tale of another remarkable vision - not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten”.
(The Pulitzer Prizes)