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Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist 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 third grade, for smashing his friend's face with a metal 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…

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 of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain… With its soaring descriptions of the natural…

The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while singlehandedly raising his unusual nine-year-old son, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures of the endangered animals he loves. He is also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his troubled son 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…

Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist 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 third grade, for smashing his friend’s face with a metal 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, while all the while fostering his son’s desperate campaign to help save this one.

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. 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?

In Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has cancer.
This same small town is home to Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston. Over the course of more than a century, it transforms into a powerful international corporation.
Clare & Company's stunning growth reflects America's kaleidoscopic history, yet for Laura and her family, this wild success has profound and lasting consequences.

Richard Powers' novel is a fascinating and profound exploration of the interaction of an individual human life and a corporate one. It tells two stories: the first that of an American company, which starts as a small family soap and candle-making firm in the early 1800s, and ends as a vast pharmaceuticals-to-pesticides combine in the 1990s. The second is that of a contemporary woman, living in the company town, who during the course of the novel is diagnosed and then finally dies of cancer, a cancer that is almost certainly caused by exposure to chemical wastes from the company's factories.

Richly intellectually stimulating, deeply moving and beautifully written, Gain is very much a 'Great American Novel', an exploration of the history, uniqueness and soul of America, in the tradition of Underworld. But it is most reminiscent of Graham Swift's Waterland, another novel that combines history, both public and private, with contemporary lives, showing how individuals are both the victims and shapers of large-scale historical and economic forces.

In Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has cancer.
This same small town is home to Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston. Over the course of more than a century, it transforms into a powerful international corporation.
Clare & Company's stunning growth reflects America's kaleidoscopic history, yet for Laura and her family, this wild success has profound and lasting consequences.

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 — Richard Powers — returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting.

What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.

When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence, he is both entranced and troubled. How can this refugee from terror radiate such bliss? Is it possible to be so open and alive without coming to serious harm? Soon, Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research has enabled him to announce his discovery of the genetic underpinnings of happiness. Thassa's congenital optimism is severely tested by the growing media circus. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the world at large.

2019. aasta Pulitzeri kirjanduspreemia v?itja „Ilmapuu” on mastaapne ja kirglikult kirjutatud raamat inimestest ja nende suhetest loodusega, ?listuslaul puude tarkusele ja koputus inimkonna s?damele. Ameerika kirjaniku Richard Powersi (snd 1957) kaheteistk?mnenda romaani alljaotustes „Juured”, „T?vi”, „V?ra” ja „Seemned” p?imuvad ?heksa inimese eluteed, kuid peategelasteks on puud oma iidsete tarkuste ja keskse paigaga meie hapras ?kos?steemis. Ameerika suureks ?koromaaniks tituleeritud „Ilmapuu” n?itab, et meie k?rval on teine maailm – tohutu, hiiglaslik, omavahel ?hendatud, l?pmata leidlik, kuid meie endi jaoks peaaegu n?htamatu. See on ?le sajandite hargnev lugu k?put?iest inimestest, kes ?pivad maailma n?gema ning p??avad seda katastroofi kursilt eemale juhtida. Kas v?i omaenda elu hinnaga.
„Parim romaan, mis on eales puudest kirjutatud, ja lihtsalt ?ks parimaid romaane, ja punkt.” – Ann Patchett

2019. aasta Pulitzeri kirjanduspreemia võitja „Ilmapuu” on mastaapne ja kirglikult kirjutatud raamat inimestest ja nende suhetest loodusega, ülistuslaul puude tarkusele ja koputus inimkonna südamele. Ameerika kirjaniku Richard Powersi (snd 1957) kaheteistkümnenda romaani alljaotustes „Juured”, „Tüvi”, „Võra” ja „Seemned” põimuvad üheksa inimese eluteed, kuid peategelasteks on puud oma iidsete tarkuste ja keskse paigaga meie hapras ökosüsteemis. Ameerika suureks ökoromaaniks tituleeritud „Ilmapuu” näitab, et meie kõrval on teine maailm – tohutu, hiiglaslik, omavahel ühendatud, lõpmata leidlik, kuid meie endi jaoks peaaegu nähtamatu. See on üle sajandite hargnev lugu käputäiest inimestest, kes õpivad maailma nägema ning püüavad seda katastroofi kursilt eemale juhtida. Kas või omaenda elu hinnaga. „Parim romaan, mis on eales puudest kirjutatud, ja lihtsalt üks parimaid romaane, ja punkt.” – Ann Patchett

Edward Hobson è un insegnante di storia, padre di quattro figli, appassionato di indovinelli, amante dello humor nero e invalido di guerra. Con i figli ha adottato uno strano metodo pedagogico basato su frasi fatte, nozionismo esasperato e sentenze moralizzatrici che i ragazzi devono imparare a memoria. Quando gli svenimenti di cui soffre diventano più frequenti i figli preoccupati, non potendo chiamare un dottore visto che il capofamiglia li odia, decidono di cercare di capire da dove provenga quello strano malessere che colpisce il padre. Nel frattempo Edward sta lavorando a un progetto segretissimo: “Hobstown”, un luogo che, nelle sue intenzioni, dovrebbe salvare non solo lui ma anche il resto del mondo. Richard Powers in questo romanzo racconta un’America di provincia, caratteristica e al contempo stravagante, e i personaggi che la abitano, capaci di compassione e di un’immaginazione così forte da poter diventare un’ancora di salvezza.

Los Angeles, Carver Hospital. Richard Kraft, interne en chirurgie pédiatrique, et sa collègue Linda sont sous tension constante. Ils tentent de soigner des enfants, mystérieux, qui en savent beaucoup plus qu'eux sur l'âme humaine. Le roman sonde les fondements de la rémission et la mémoire de l'Amérique.

In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band – a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapist – are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.
Operation Wandering Soul is a novel about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive, a little longer, the vanishing narratives of childhood.

Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. "Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare it describes."--USA Today.

In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band – a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapist – are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.
Operation Wandering Soul is a novel about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive, a little longer, the vanishing narratives of childhood.

Composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His amateur science lab – the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in the most surprising places – has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an internet-fuelled hysteria erupts, Els – the ‘Bioterrorist Bach’ – pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey. Together, they hatch a plan to turn this disastrous collision with state security into a work that will reawaken a nationwide audience to the glorious sounds and symphonies that lie hidden all around them.