Bewilderment von Powers, Richard

In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab-the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns-has aroused the suspicions of...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTIONAN...

** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION ** A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021**A father. A son. A bewildering world.Discover the breath-taking new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Overstory.'The love between son and father...

Plowing the Dark

Reissues of acclaimed and interesting novels from the author of Man Booker-shortlisted "The Overstory". Powers has also won the National Book Award. von Powers, Richard

The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures...

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate...

"The Time of Our Singing" von Richard Powers ist ein vielschichtiger Roman, der sich mit Themen wie Rasse, Identität, Musik und Geschichte auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte beginnt im Jahr 1939 bei einem Konzert in Washington D.C., wo der...

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the...

"Time of Our Singing" von Richard Powers ist ein epischer Roman, der die Geschichte einer gemischtrassigen Familie über mehrere Generationen hinweg erzählt. Im Zentrum stehen Delia Daley, eine afroamerikanische Sängerin, und David Strom,...