The Overstory

Winner of the PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. Really, just one of the best novels, period Ann Patchett An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe. Its not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book Margaret Atwood Its a masterpiece Tim Winton Radical and exciting Jessie Burton Breathtaking Barbara Kingsolver Dazzlingly written Robert Macfarlane

Richard Powers (Auteur) - Verschenen op 11/04/2019 bij Vintage Usa