Richard Powers

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.

Pulitzer PrizeGanador, 2019

Cuatro vidas se entrecruzan en esta nueva novela de Richard Powers, donde el autor deEl clamor de los bosques y ganador del Premio Pulitzer se muestra en la cima de sus habilidades.Evie Beaulieu, de doce años, se sumerge en una piscina de Montreal atada a una de las primeras escafandras autonomas del mundo. Ina Aroita crece en las bases navales del Pacifico con el arte como unico hogar. Dos polos opuestos en un instituto de elite de Chicago se vinculan gracias a un juego de mesa de tres mil años de antiguedad; Rafi Young se perdera en la literatura, mientras que el trabajo de Todd Keane conducira a un sorprendente avance de la inteligencia artificial.Todos ellos se reunen en Makatea, una isla de la Polinesia Francesa marcada por la historia, cuyos depositos de fosforo contribuyeron en su dia a alimentar al mundo. Ahora el diminuto atolon ha sido el elegido para la proxima aventura de la humanidad: el lanzamiento de ciudades flotantes y autonomas a mar abierto. Pero antes, los habitantes de la isla tienen que votar para dar luz verde al proyecto o expulsar a los colonizadores marinos.Ambientado en el oceano mas grande del mundo, este libro cargado de asombro explora el ultimo lugar salvaje que aun nos queda por colonizar en un juego marino aun en desarrollo y combina, como solo Richard Powers es capaz de hacer, la belleza de la escritura, una rica caracterizacion, el tratamiento de temas profundos sobre tecnologia y medioambiente, y una intensa exploracion de nuestra humanidad compartida.Cuatro vidas se entrecruzan en esta nueva novela de Richard Powers, donde el autor deEl clamor de los bosques y ganador del Premio Pulitzer se muestra en la cima de sus habilidades.Evie Beaulieu, de doce años, se sumerge en una piscina de Montreal atada a una de las primeras escafandras autonomas del mundo. Ina Aroita crece en las bases navales del Pacifico con el arte como unico hogar. Dos polos opuestos en un instituto de elite de Chicago se vinculan gracias a un juego de mesa de tres mil años de antiguedad; Rafi Young se perdera en la literatura, mientras que el trabajo de Todd Keane conducira a un sorprendente avance de la inteligencia artificial.Todos ellos se reunen en Makatea, una isla de la Polinesia Francesa marcada por la historia, cuyos depositos de fosforo contribuyeron en su dia a alimentar al mundo. Ahora el diminuto atolon ha sido el elegido para la proxima aventura de la humanidad: el lanzamiento de ciudades flotantes y autonomas a mar abierto. Pero antes, los habitantes de la isla tienen que votar para dar luz verde al proyecto o expulsar a los colonizadores marinos.Ambientado en el oceano mas grande del mundo, este libro cargado de asombro explora el ultimo lugar salvaje que aun nos queda por colonizar en un juego marino aun en desarrollo y combina, como solo Richard Powers es capaz de hacer, la belleza de la escritura, una rica caracterizacion, el tratamiento de temas profundos sobre tecnologia y medioambiente, y una intensa exploracion de nuestra humanidad compartida.¿Hay algo que Richard Powers no pueda escribir? Su escritura se parece al mar. Inmensa, misteriosa, profunda y viva. Percival EverettUn viaje extraordinariamente inmersivo a traves de varias vidas unidas de forma misteriosa, absorbente, inquietante e inspiradora. Emma DonoghueFascinante, con una magnifica escritu...

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.

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

'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.

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.

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.

*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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The Paris Review, Richard Powers From the biggest little magazine in the world comes an addictively clever anthology prescribed to fill all the blank moments of your life.The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms is the ultimate, and perfect, theme-anthology. It's theme is the reader. Everyday we must live through moments of waiting--to get from one place to the next, from one appointment to another, for something to happen. This ingeniously useful compendium offers reading material to fill those gray moments with beauty, wonder, insight, and emotion. Organized by the time that the reader has available at that moment, the anthology provides a poem for that elevator ride to the lawyer's office; a short story for the thirty-minute commute; a novella for the three-hour plane ride. As ever, The Paris Review provides work from only the best writers of the last three generations.Among those to appear:- Mary Robison- Denis Johnson- Michael Chabon- Marilyn Hacker- Robert Pinsky- and many more.