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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Arrow (Random)
ISBN: 9780099516125
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 576
Tiempo de lectura:
11h 57m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 31/07/2007
Año de edición: 2007
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Richard Powers
Richard Powers es autor de catorce novelas, entre las que se encuentra "Galatea 2.2", "Ganancia", "El tiempo de nuestras canciones" y "El eco de la memoria", por la que fue galardonado con el National Book Award. Asimismo, ha sido receptor de una beca MacArthur, cuatro veces finalista de National Book Critics Circle Award y profesor en las universidades de Illinois y Stanford. Con "El clamor de los bosques" fue finalista del Premio Man Booker 2018 y ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2019. Vive al pie de las Grandes Montañas Humeantes. También disponible de Richard Powers en AdN: "El clamor de los bosques", "Orfeo" y "Desconcierto".