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This lavishly illustrated book explores the great exemplars of Nordic residential architecture from the past 120 years, featuring groundbreaking modernist homes and contemporary dream residences.

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Um oficial da aeronáutica americana mergulha desgovernado pelo céu com seu paraquedas e se salva ao aterrissar sobre uma figueira-de-bengala. Um artista herda cem anos de retratos fotográficos, todos da mesma castanheira destinada a sucumbir. Uma estudante universitária é eletrocutada, morre e regressa à vida graças a algumas criaturas de ar e de luz. Uma cientista descobre que as árvores se comunicam umas com as outras e é desacreditada pelos colegas. Esses quatro personagens e outros cinco desconhecidos — todos convocados de maneiras diferentes pelas árvores — se reúnem em um último esforço coletivo para salvar os poucos quilômetros restantes de floresta virgem do continente americano. Ao entrelaçar histórias e vozes de maneira magistral, A trama das árvores explora o conflito essencial do nosso planeta: aquele entre humanos e não humanos. Existe um universo próximo ao nosso — vasto, lento, interligado, engenhoso, magnificamente inventivo e no entanto quase invisível para nós. Esta é a história de um punhado de pessoas que aprendem a enxergar esse mundo e são atraídas para a sua catástrofe em pleno desenvolvimento. Vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer de Ficção de 2019, sucesso absoluto de público e de crítica, A trama das árvores é um livro para todos que anseiam impacientes pela possibilidade regeneradora de mudança. Se as árvores da Terra pudessem falar, o que diriam? "Escute. Há algo que você precisa ouvir."

Eine Insel. Vier Suchende. Verbunden durch das vielleicht letzte große Abenteuer der Menschheit. – Das bewegende Meisterwerk von Pulitzer-Preisträger und Autor des Weltbestsellers »Die Wurzeln des Lebens« Auf Makatea, einst ein vergessener Fleck im endlos blauen Pazifik, soll die Gesellschaft der Zukunft entstehen. Über Umwege und Gezeiten finden auf der Insel vier Menschen zusammen, deren Schicksale nachhaltig mit dem des Planeten verknüpft sind: Evelyne Beaulieu, die in den Tiefen des Ozeans taucht, um das geheimnisvolle Spiel der Riesenmantas zu entziffern. Ina Aroita, die die paradiesischen Strände nach Materialien für ihre Skulpturen abwandert, doch schon lange schwemmt das Meer nur noch Plastikmüll an. Und der verträumte Büchernarr Rafi Young und der visionäre Computernerd Todd Keane, deren Freundschaft an dem kühnen Versuch zu zerbrechen droht, ein Spiel zu erfinden, das unsere Erde für immer verändern wird. Virtuos komponiert der große Erzähler Richard Powers die dringenden Fragen unserer Zeit – über die Auswirkungen der Klimakrise und die Hoffnung Künstlicher Intelligenz – zu einem fesselnden und zutiefst bewegenden Epos. »Einfach nur: Wow! Der neue Roman des preisgekrönten US-Autors Richard Powers (hervorragend übersetzt von Eva Bonné) ist eine Güteklasse à la ›Wenn du dieses Jahr nur noch einen Roman liest, nimm diesen!‹« emotion, Timothy Sondershüsken »Wohl kein anderer Autor ist in der Lage, naturwissenschaftliche und philosophische Themen literarisch so packend und stimmig zu verknüpfen wie der amerikanische Autor Richard Powers. (...) Aus Wissenschaft wird bei ihm Literatur, aus spröden Worten werden Sprachmelodien, (...) Algorithmen werden zu Poesie.« Radio 3/RBB, Frank Dietschreit »Atemberaubend schön, ungeheuer spannend und natürlich zugleich bedrückend.« DLF Kultur, Studio 9, Joachim Scholl »Wer erzählt hier eigentlich? Die Antwort wird am Ende gegeben. Und ist einer der überraschendsten Twists in der jüngeren Literaturgeschichte.« STERN, Oliver Creutz »›Das große Spiel‹ ist brillant, fesselnd und wichtig – und das beste Buch, das ich dieses Jahr gelesen habe!« Andrea Wulf »Gibt es etwas, das Richard Powers nicht schreiben kann? Sein neuer Roman ist wie der Ozean. Groß und geheimnisvoll, voller Tiefe und Leben.« Percival Everett »Eine außergewöhnliche Reise durch vier Leben, die auf geheimnisvolle Weise miteinander verbunden sind – absolut mitreißend, beunruhigend und doch voller Hoffnung.« Emma Donoghue »Dieser faszinierende Roman ist eine sprachmächtige Botschaft für diesen zerbrechlichen Planeten.« Kirkus Reviews »Wäre Powers ein amerikanischer Autor des 19. Jahrhunderts, welcher wäre er? Wahrscheinlich Herman Melville mit ›Moby Dick‹. Seine Leinwand ist so groß.« Margaret Atwood »Powers komponiert einige der schönsten Sätze, die ich je gelesen habe. Ich habe Ehrfurcht vor seinem Talent.« Oprah Winfrey »Es ist unmöglich, die Bedeutung von Powers'' Botschaft zu leugnen.« The Sunday Times

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 KIRKUS PRIZE From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Overstory comes an epic tale of love, friendship and humanity’s next great adventure. When two brilliant misfits bond at an elite Chicago private school—one a white legacy kid named Todd Keane and the other, Rafi Young, a Black scholarship student from the South Side—their friendship seems as boundary-breaking and limitless as the 3,000-year-old board game that brings them together. For a time, not even simultaneously falling in love with Ina Aroita, who grew up in naval bases across the Pacific, shakes them. Until finally it does, with a betrayal that launches all three of them on radically different paths. Rafi disappears into literature, and Ina into art. Todd, who once dreamed of escape into the world beneath the surface of the ocean, revealed to him by the legendary Canadian diver and marine biologist Evie Beaulieu, becomes instead one of the most powerful tech billionaires on the planet whose social media empire, Playground, is remaking the global order with its AI breakthroughs. But not even wild success can insulate Todd from mortality. As illness eats away at the brain that built it all, he dreams of the life that could’ve been and the relationships he should never have let go. Before Todd’s final act is up, past loves and present ambitions collide on the ravaged Polynesian island of Makatea, where an unnamed corporation hopes to build the first floating, autonomous city on the open sea. Traversing borders and oceans, connection and loss, ingenuity and transcendence, Playground brings to light the systems of competition, cooperation, commerce, exploration and love that tie the fates of unlikely humans together, in Richard Powers’ most transporting work of fiction yet.

Deslumbramento é uma narrativa densa em que o autor Richard Powers apresenta um romance íntimo e comovente. Ao retratar pai e filho em busca de refúgio num mundo em crise, este é um livro poderoso que nos leva a questionar o lugar que ocupamos no universo e a reconsiderar nossa relação com a natureza. No cerne desta história, ressoa a inquietante (e urgente) indagação: como podemos contar aos nossos filhos a verdade sobre o futuro do planeta?

Nowa, rozdzierająca serce powieść laureata Nagrody Pulitzera i autora bestsellerowej Listowieści. Astrobiolog Theo Byrne zajmujący się badaniem życia pozaziemskiego, po śmierci żony samodzielnie wychowuje dziewięcioletniego syna. Robin jest ciepłym, serdecznym chłopcem, niezwykle wrażliwym – podobnie jak jego nieżyjąca już matka – na przyrodę i nękające ją zagrożenia związane ze zmianami klimatycznymi. Trudno mu jednak dostosować się do reguł panujących w społeczeństwie. Nie umie odnaleźć się wśród rówieśników, bywa agresywny – za co grozi mu wyrzucenie ze szkoły. Specjaliści zalecają leczenie środkami psychoaktywnymi. Theo nie chce się na to zgodzić. Decyduje się poddać syna eksperymentalnej terapii neurofeedbacku, która może pomóc chłopcu panować nad emocjami dzięki zastosowaniu zarejestrowanych schematów pracy mózgu jego matki... Zadziwienie jest najbardziej intymną i poruszającą powieścią Richarda Powersa. Znakomite opisy przyrody, hipnotyzujące wizje życia pozaziemskiego, portret żarliwej miłości łączącej ojca i syna, a wszystko to obraca się wokół pytania: Jak opowiedzieć naszym dzieciom prawdę o tej pięknej, zagrożonej planecie? Finalista Nagrody Bookera 2021, nominowany do ngrody National Book Award for Fiction 2021 oraz Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022 Richard Powers jest jednym z najznakomitszych żyjących w tym kraju pisarzy. Niewiele w życiu czytałam tak pięknie skomponowanych zdań jak jego. Jestem wielbicielką jego talentu. Oprah Winfrey Wyjątkowa....Wnikliwa, często poetycka proza Powersa momentalnie wciąga nas w bezmiar wyobraźni, a jednocześnie energicznie prowadzi ku najpilniejszym, a przy tym znajomym kwestiom, które wstrząsają naszą planetą i nami osobiście. “New York Times Book Review”

AN OPRAH''S BOOK CLUB SELECTION An Instant New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. 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 world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?

Three tales intertwine around a photo of three young men on the brink of WWI in this literary debut by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory. In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took 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 Powers''s brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in a surprising way and offer the reader a glimpse into a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress. Praise for Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "An obsessive, witty, moving, often electrifying whale of a book about nothing less than the twentieth century. . . . An auspicious debut." — Kirkus Reviews "A scintillating, high-octane intellectual flight of fancy." — Newsday "One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo." —Gerald Howard , The Nation "Bristlingly intelligent. . . . Powers is a superb writer." — Chicago Tribune "A writer of blistering intellect. . . . [Powers is] a novelist of ideas and a novelist of witness, and in both respects, he has few American peers." —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

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.

Si los árboles pudieran hablar, ¿qué nos dirían? GANADOR DEL PREMIO PULITZER 2019 - FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER 2018 Un 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 fotográficos, 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 científica con problemas de oído y de habla descubre que los árboles se comunican entre sí. Estos cuatro personajes y otros cinco desconocidos más, todos ellos convocados por los árboles de diferentes modos, se reúnen en una última 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 también una deslumbrante evocación, y una alabanza, del mundo natural. Desde las raíces hasta las copas y de vuelta a las semillas, El clamor de los bosques, ambientada en varias épocas, se desarrolla en círculos concéntricos de fábulas 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 máximo 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 catástrofe. El clamor de los bosques es un libro para todos los lectores que han dejado de creer en la separación autoimpuesta entre la humanidad y el resto de la creación, y que aguardan la posibilidad transformadora y regeneradora de un regreso al hogar. Si los árboles de este planeta pudieran hablar, ¿qué nos dirían? «Escucha. Hay algo que debes oír».

»Die Wurzeln des Lebens« ist ein großer epischer Roman, der unseren Platz in der Welt neu vermisst - ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer Preis 2019 für Literatur In Richard Powers Erzählwelt ist alles miteinander verknüpft. Die Menschen sind miteinander verwurzelt wie ein Wald. Sie bilden eine Familie aus Freunden, die sich zum Schutz der Bäume zusammenfinden: der Sohn von Siedlern, die unter dem letzten der ausgestorbenen Kastanienbäume Amerikas lebten; eine junge Frau, deren Vater aus China eine Maulbeere mitbrachte; ein Soldat, der im freien Fall von einem Feigenbaum aufgefangen wurde; und die unvergessliche Patricia Westerfjord, die als Botanikerin die Kommunikation der Bäume entdeckte. Sie alle tun sich zusammen, um die ältesten Mammutbäume zu retten – und geraten in eine Spirale von Politik und Gewalt, die nicht nur ihr Leben, sondern auch unsere Welt bedroht. »Wäre Powers ein amerikanischer Autor des 19. Jahrhunderts, welcher wäre er? Wahrscheinlich Herman Melville mit ›Moby Dick‹. Seine Leinwand ist so groß.« Margaret Atwood

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus. "Bravo, Richard Powers, for hitting so many high notes with Orfeo and contributing to the fraction of books that really matter." —Heller McAlpin, NPR In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab—the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns—has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive and hatches a plan to transform this disastrous collision with the security state into an unforgettable work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around it.

A family''s real life journey in an 1830s Florida that intertwines with the Seminole Wars, The War Between the States and settling Florida.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author''s "provocative . . . dazzling" novel delves into the possibilities and consequences of finding the genetic basis for happiness (Ron Charles, The Washington Post). A refugee from the Algerian civil war, Thassadit Amzwar has not only survived terrible trauma, but also emerged from it with an unflagging sense of joy and optimism. Could it be that her infectious joy—which has inspired her fellow creative nonfiction students at the Mesquakie College of Art—is rooted in a genetic condition known as hyperthymia? When her condition captures the public imagination—and the attention of a pioneering geneticist—events are set in motion that bring profound questions into focus. 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. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

Victime d''un accident de voiture sur une route du Nebraska, Mark Schulter sort enfin du coma mais ne semble plus reconnaître sa soeur aînée, Karin. Gérald Weber, un célèbre neurologue, identifie le mal dont souffre Mark, le syndrome de Capgras. N''ayant plus accès aux émotions qu''il éprouve pour sa soeur, Mark est persuadé que la personne à son chevet est un sosie de sa soeur.

Winner of the National Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah''s Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers''s The Echo Maker, a powerful novel about family and loss. “Wise and elegant . . . The mysteries unfold so organically and stealthily that you are unaware of his machinations until they come to stunning fruition . . . Powers accomplishes something magnificent.” —Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman—who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister—is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark’s accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition. In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists.

En 1939, lors d''un concert de Marian Anderson, David Strom, un physicien juif allemand émigré aux Etats-Unis pour fuir les persécutions nazies, rencontre une jeune femme noire, Delia Daley. Ils se marient et élèvent leurs trois enfants dans le culte exclusif de la musique, de l''art, de la science et de l''amour universel, préférant ignorer la violence du monde autour d''eux. Cette éducation va avoir des conséquences diverses sur les trois enfants. Jonah devient un ténor de renommée mondiale, Ruth va rejeter les valeurs de sa famille pour adhérer au mouvement de Black Panthers, leur frère Joseph tentera de garder le cap entre l''aveuglement des uns et le débordement des autres, afin de préserver l''unité de sa famille en dépit des aléas de l''histoire. Avec des personnages d''une humanité rare, Richard Powers couvre dans cet éblouissant roman polyphonique un demi-siècle d''histoire américaine, nous offrant, au passage, des pages inoubliables sur la musique. Le Temps où nous chantions a été élu meilleur livre de l''année par The NewYork Times et TheWashington Post.

El tiempo de nuestras canciones habla de medio siglo de historia norteamericana girando alrededor de los conflictos raciales, de la historia de la música popular negra que va desde los spirituals al hip-hop, de la teoría de la relatividad y la mística cuántica ... todo esto y mucho más bombardeando los días y las noches de varias generaciones de la familia Strom. La novela está construida con una estructura de contrapunto y así, en capítulos alternativos, vamos conociendo la historia de los padres y de los hijos; historias que al final como cabe esperar, se funden en una para acabar, en las últimas páginas, revelando un portentoso secreto.

Dette er en familieroman fra rasemotsetningene i USA. Den svarte sangerinnen Delia Daley og den jødiske kjernefysikeren David Strom forelsker seg, gifter seg og får tre barn. De forsøker å gi barna en oppvekst preget av sang og musikk, hevet over tidens sosiale motsetninger. Fortelleren er sønnen David, men den eldre broren Jonah er den egentlige hovedpersonen. Han får en stor karriere som sanger. Ekteskapet mellom Delia og David og barnas utvikling gir forfatteren mulighet til å skrive om raseforholdene i USA fra 1930-årene og frem til i dag.

“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah''s Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers''s magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers''s The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.