Books by Richard Powers

Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from school for smashing his friend's face with a thermos.What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, all while fostering his son's desperate attempt to save this one.At the heart of Bewilderment lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?

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 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF SEPTEMBER 2021THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREYTheo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from school for smashing his friend's face with a thermos.What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, all while fostering his son's desperate attempt to save this one.At the heart of Bewilderment lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?'Both touching and finely written' TELEGRAPH'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an intense, thrilling novel about a near fatal accident and its devastating consequences. On a winter night, Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near-fatal accident.

»Die Wurzeln des Lebens« ist ein großer epischer Roman, der unseren Platz in der Welt neu vermisst - ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer Preis 2019 für LiteraturIn Richard Powers Erzählwelt ist alles miteinander verknüpft. Die Menschen sind miteinander verwurzelt wie ein Wald. Sie bilden eine Familie aus Freunden, die sich zum Schutz der Bäume zusammenfinden: der Sohn von Siedlern, die unter dem letzten der ausgestorbenen Kastanienbäume Amerikas lebten; eine junge Frau, deren Vater aus China eine Maulbeere mitbrachte; ein Soldat, der im freien Fall von einem Feigenbaum aufgefangen wurde; und die unvergessliche Patricia Westerford, die als Botanikerin die Kommunikation der Bäume entdeckte. Sie alle tun sich zusammen, um die ältesten Mammutbäume zu retten - und geraten in eine Spirale von Politik und Gewalt, die nicht nur ihr Leben, sondern auch unsere Welt bedroht.»Wäre Powers ein amerikanischer Autor des 19. Jahrhunderts, welcher wäre er? Wahrscheinlich Herman Melville mit >Moby DickMargaret Atwood

This book celebrates inventive and inspired homes that are at once original and the product of visionary designers at the height of their powers.

In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, a bland white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn city on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in an empty white room...

Read this thrilling and timely novel of the human soul from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory. After many years of living abroad, a young writer returns to the United States to take up a position at his former college.

From the Palmer Raids to the McCarthy era, to ABSCAM and Waco, the FBI has been enmeshed in controversy since its creation. But how did the bureau that began with a modest 34 investigators in 1908 become the powerful force that it is today, employing over 12,000 agents across the country?

Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race. Hothouse children, they are all musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long.