Ричард Пауэрс — библиография

Художник получает в наследство огромную пачку фотографий, на которых запечатлен один гигантский каштан. Студентка умирает от удара током, но ее воскрешают призраки из воздуха и света. Ученая делает открытие о том, что деревья способны общаться друг с другом. Во время Вьетнамской войны солдат, выброшенный взрывом из подбитого самолета, выживает, упав в ветки баньяна. Все эти люди и еще пять незнакомцев постепенно выясняют, что рядом с нами существует другой мир – огромный, медленный, взаимосвязанный и практически невидимый для человека. Это история тех, кто научился видеть этот мир, и теперь они призваны защитить его от неминуемой…

In the spring of 1914, renowned German photographer August Sander takes a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Richard Powers’ brilliant and compelling first novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. In one, a chance museum-goer becomes obsessed with the photo; and in the other, a young technical writer in Boston discovers he has a personal connection to it. The three stories connect in an entirely surprising way, describing nothing less than the…

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.

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.

Астробиолог Тео Бирн ищет жизнь в далеком космосе и после смерти жены в одиночку воспитывает своего девятилетнего сына Робина, необычного умного мальчика, который сочиняет стихи и может часами в мельчайших подробностях рисовать животных и растения. А еще его хотят исключить из школы за то, что он избил собственного друга. С каждым месяцем состояние Робина ухудшается, и тогда отец прибегает к новейшему методу лечения – нейронной обратной связи. Робин начинает контролировать собственные эмоции, взаимодействуя с моделью, которая основана на предварительно записанном образе эмоций его покойной матери, ранее участвовавшей в эксперименте. А тем…

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.

Stuart Ressler, a brilliant biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes – social, moral, musical, spiritual – and he falls in love with a member of his research team. Years later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different mystery – why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science? Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory, an enthralling, wrenching novel about the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities. Jonah, Ruth and Joseph are the children of mixed-race parents determined to raise them beyond time, beyond identity, steeped in song. Yet they cannot be protected from the world forever. Even as Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, the opera arena remains fixated on his race. Ruth turns her back on classical music and disappears, dedicating herself to activism and a new relationship. As the years pass, Joseph – the middle child, a pianist and our narrator – must battle not…

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…

Tout commence par une photo, désormais célèbre celle prise par August Sander de trois fermiers sur une route de campagne à la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale. Pourquoi cette photo obsède-t-elle tant le narrateur, depuis qu'il l'a vue par hasard dans un musée de Detroit ? Peter Mays, un jeune journaliste de Boston, saura-t-il percer l'énigme de son étrange ressemblance avec l'un des fermiers de la photo ? Qu'est-il advenu de ces trois jeunes hommes ? Telles sont les questions que se pose le lecteur, et auxquelles vont devoir répondre les protagonistes du roman de Richard Powers. De l'Europe dévastée par la guerre de 14-18, où nous…

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory 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... Adie Klarpol, a disillusioned artist, is invigorated by the thrill of workin

he Overstory 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.