Richard Powers

Pulitzer PrizeGanador, 2019

Si los árboles pudieran hablar, ¿qué nos dirían?GANADOR DEL PREMIO PULITZER 2019 - FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER 2018Un jefe de carga de las Fuerzas Aéreas en Vietnam sale disparado por el cielo y se salva al caer sobre un baniano. Un artista hereda cien años de retratos fotograficos, todos del mismo castaño americano maldito. Una universitaria juerguista se electrocuta a finales de los ochenta, muere y regresa a la vida gracias a unas criaturas de aire y luz. Una cientifica con problemas de oido y de habla descubre que los arboles se comunican entre si. Estos cuatro personajes y otros cinco desconocidos mas, todos ellos convocados por los arboles de diferentes modos, se reunen en una ultima y violenta batalla para salvar los pocos acres de bosque virgen que quedan en el continente americano. Un relato arrollador y exaltado sobre el activismo y la resistencia, que es tambien una deslumbrante evocacion, y una alabanza, del mundo natural.Desde las raices hasta las copas y de vuelta a las semillas, El clamor de los bosques, ambientada en varias epocas, se desarrolla en circulos concentricos de fabulas entrelazadas y explora el conflicto esencial de nuestro planeta: el que tiene lugar entre humanos y no humanos. Existe un mundo al lado del nuestro, un mundo extenso, lento, interconectado, lleno de recursos, ingenioso al maximo y casi invisible para nosotros.Esta es la historia de un grupo de personas que aprenden a ver ese mundo y que forman parte su paulatina catastrofe. El clamor de los bosques es un libro para todos los lectores que han dejado de creer en la separacion autoimpuesta entre la humanidad y el resto de la creacion, y que aguardan la posibilidad transformadora y regeneradora de un regreso al hogar. Si los arboles de este planeta pudieran hablar, ¿que nos dirian? Escucha. Hay algo que debes oir.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT ''Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep and alive'' PERCIVAL EVERETT ''An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways - gripping, alarming and uplifting'' EMMA DONOGHUE Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todds work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the worlds first aqualungs; Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, marked for humanitys next great adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the seasteaders close in, how will Evie play the ever-unfolding oceanic game? Will Ina engage in acts of destruction? Todd and Rafi, now estranged, still find themselves in competition: Todd unravels while working on an idea to redraw the boundaries of human immortality, while Rafi and the residents must decide if they will greenlight the new project on their shores and change their home forever.

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 seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear''s ability to hear - has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his house, Els flees and turns fugitive, waiting for the evidence to clear him and for the alarm surrounding his activities to blow over.But alarm turns to national hysteria, as the government promises a panicked nation that the ''Bioterrorist Bach'' will be found and brought to trial. As Els feels the noose around him tighten, he embarks on a cross-country trip to visit, one last time, the people in his past who have most shaped his failed musical journey. And through the help of these people - his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime artistic collaborator - Els comes up with a plan to turn this disastrous collision with national security into one last, resonant, calamitous artwork that might reach an audience beyond his wildest dreams.

Una muestra de espacios creativos e inspiradores, generados a partir de una rica gama de influencias y adaptados a nuestro tipo de vida sofisticado, flexible y global. Descripciones e imágenes de interiores y exteriores novedosos que aprovechan al maximo los nuevos y mejores metodos y materiales, con visiones abiertas del espacio. Espacios creados a partir del estudio y la combinacion de aspectos como la armonia y la proporcion, el equilibrio y los estilos de decoracion, el diseño y la textura, el color y la luz. ¿Que significa ser moderno? No se trata de un estilo en sentido estricto, sino mas bien de una actitud hacia el estilo menos purista y mas creativa de lo que uno pueda imaginar. Para crear un espacio moderno hace falta comprender todo el abanico de referencias internacionales y analizar los aspectos basicos del diseño de espacios. Lugar, estilo, arquitectura, materiales, superficie, funcion, ambiente, elementos, mobiliario, exterior y recursos: conceptos que trabajan en sinergia para producir espacios hermosos que se adaptan bien a la vida moderna, un enfoque mas abierto en organizacion, funcion y espacios. Una obra inspiradora para arquitectos e interioristas, asi como todos aquellos interesados en la creacion de espacios.

Adie Klarpol landet als Zeichnerin in einem Computerlabor in Seattle: hier sollen die Computerbilder laufen lernen, um den Betrachter in den Sehnsüchten des eignen Blicks zu fangen. Taimur Martin ist Lehrer im Libanon. Von einer Zigarettenpause kehrt er nicht zurück, bleibt jahrelang als Geisel in einer Höhle isoliert. Auch er schafft künstliche Welten, nicht der Technik, sondern der Fantasie.

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brother''s refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognizes Mark as a rare case of Capgras syndrome, a doubling delusion, and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition. Set against the Platte River''s massive spring migrations - one of the greatest spectacles in nature - "The Echo Maker" is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.

'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.' Margaret Atwood A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most 'prodigiously talented' (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 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 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. These four, and five other strangers - each summoned in different ways by trees - are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours - vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

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 Schluters truck turns over

La nova i colpidora novel·la del guanyador del Premi Pulitzer per El clamor de los bosques, una imperiosa crida a l'atenció sobre els riscos que amenacen el nostre planeta.Finalista del premi Booker 2021.Finalista del National Book Award 2021.Seleccionada pel club de lectura d'Oprah Winfrey.L'astrobioleg Theo Byrne busca formes de vida al cosmos mentre educa ell sol el seu peculiar fill de nou anys, en Robin, despres de la mort de la seva dona. En Robin es un infant afectuos i dolç, que passa hores fent uns dibuixos molt elaborats d'animals en perill d'extincio, i que ara esta a punt que l'expulsin de classe de tercer perque ha clavat una bufetada a un amic. Malgrat que els problemes del fill s'agreugen, en Theo fa els possibles per no haver de medicar-lo amb farmacs psicoactius. Aleshores descobreix un tractament experimental de neurofeedback ideat per millorar el control de les emocions d'en Robin mitjançant unes sessions d'entrenament amb patrons gravats del cervell de la seva mare...Amb unes descripcions del mon natural sublims, una visio de la vida prometedora, mes enlla dels nostres confins, i el relat d'un amor incondicional entre pare i fill, Desconcert es la novel·la mes intima i emotiva de Richard Powers. Dins seu hi resideix una pregunta: com podem explicar als fills la veritat sobre el nostre magnific planeta, que esta amenaçat?

Theo Byrne é um jovem cientista promissor que descobriu como procurar vida noutros planetas a dezenas de anos-luz. Viúvo,Theo é também pai de um menino de nove anos muito peculiar. Robin, o seu fi­lh

Après des années passées seule dans la forêt à étudier les arbres, la botaniste Pat Westerford en revient avec une découverte sur ce qui est peut-être le premier et le dernier mystère du monde : la c

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep and alive' PERCIVAL EVERETT'An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways - gripping, alarming and uplifting' EMMA DONOGHUERafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todds work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the worlds first aqualungs; Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHORExtraordinary New York TimesRemarkable ObserverHeartfelt GuardianTheo 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. But after a violent outburst from Robin at school, the strength of their close bond will be tested to its limits...What can a father do, when those around him refuse to understand his rare and troubled child? And how can he reveal to his boy the truth about our beautiful, bewildered world?

Une édition collector de la saga polyphonique d'une famille de musiciens métis dans l'Amérique des années quarante à nos jours. Tout commence en 1939, lorsque Delia Daley et David Strom se rencontren

*THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER *WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION*A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it Barack ObamaAn 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 AtwoodReally, just one of the best novels, period Ann PatchettRadical and exciting Jessie BurtonBreath-taking Barbara Kingsolver