New Releases by Richard Powers

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.

Rafi Young e Todd Keane frequentano una delle scuole più esclusive di Chicago: non potrebbero essere più diversi, eppure un antico gioco da tavolo li lega in un’amicizia capace di orientare le loro scelte. Ormai adulti, la vita li separa. Rafi si dedica alla letteratura, mentre l’intuizione di Todd porta a una sorprendente svolta nel mondo dell’intelligenza artificiale. A migliaia di chilometri di distanza, Evelyne Beaulieu si immerge in una piscina a Montréal per testare uno dei primi autorespiratori per sub, mentre Ina Aroita cresce passando da una base navale all’altra nel Pacifico, alimentando attraverso l’arte il suo legame con la natura. Quattro vite che si ritrovano a Makatea, un’isola remota della Polinesia segnata dalla storia, e ora destinata alla prossima grande avventura dell’umanità: un progetto milionario per costruire città galleggianti in mare aperto. Quando i nuovi coloni si preparano a sbarcare, Evelyne e Ina dovranno decidere fino a che punto spingersi per difendere l’oceano, la loro casa, mentre Rafi e Todd si troveranno, ancora una volta, avversari in una sfida decisiva. Il premio Pulitzer Richard Powers racconta l’ultimo luogo selvaggio del nostro pianeta, e i rischi che potrebbe correre, in un romanzo in cui immergersi con meraviglia per esplorare fino in fondo l’umanità che ci unisce.

Now available in paperback, this essential book on modern architecture presents over one hundred of the most significant houses of the past hundred years.

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."

Cuatro vidas se entrecruzan en esta nueva novela de Richard Powers, donde el autor de El 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 autónomas del mundo. Ina Aroita crece en las bases navales del Pacífico con el arte como único hogar. Dos polos opuestos en un instituto de élite de Chicago se vinculan gracias a un juego de mesa de tres mil años de antigüedad; Rafi Young se perderá en la literatura, mientras que el trabajo de Todd Keane conducirá a un sorprendente avance de la inteligencia artificial. Todos ellos se reúnen en Makatea, una isla de la Polinesia Francesa marcada por la historia, cuyos depósitos de fósforo contribuyeron en su día a alimentar al mundo. Ahora el diminuto atolón ha sido el elegido para la próxima aventura de la humanidad: el lanzamiento de ciudades flotantes y autónomas 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 océano más grande del mundo, este libro cargado de asombro explora el último lugar salvaje que aún nos queda por colonizar en un juego marino aún en desarrollo y combina, como solo Richard Powers es capaz de hacer, la belleza de la escritura, una rica caracterización, el tratamiento de temas profundos sobre tecnología y medioambiente, y una intensa exploración de nuestra humanidad compartida.

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

New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize As Seen on CBS Saturday Morning • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, according to the Washington Post and AARP • A Time Must-Read Book of the Year • An NPR "Books We Love" Pick • An Economist, New Yorker, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "Prepare to be awed.… [A]stonishing." —Ron Charles, Washington Post The magisterial novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

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?

Nominalizat la National Book Award 2021 Nominalizat la Booker Prize 2021 „Extraordinar!" The New York Times Book Review Astrobiologul Theo Byrne caută semne de viață în necuprinsul cosmosului, crescându-și în același timp de unul singur fiul de nouă ani, pe Robin, în urma morții accidentale a soției sale. Robin e un băiețel blând și bun, ce petrece ore întregi pictând animale aflate-n pragul dispariției. Același băiețel e pe cale de a fi exmatriculat pentru că și-a lovit colegul. Pe măsură ce fiul său devine din ce în ce mai tulburat, Theo speră să-l țină departe de medicația psihoactivă. Află, întâmplător, de un tratament experimental menit să-i susțină lui Robin controlul emoțiilor, ce ar necesita conectarea băiatului la modelele cognitive înregistrate ale creierului mamei sale... Cu o viziune rară asupra lumii și descrierea uneia dintre cele mai răscolitoare apropieri dintre tată și fiu, Uimire este cel mai intim și mai tulburător roman al lui Richard Powers. „Richard Powers se numără printre marii scriitori americani în viață. El scrie unele dintre cele mai frumoase fraze pe care le-am citit vreodată." Oprah Winfrey „Uimire este un adevărat strigăt din străfundul sufletului. O poveste care te va bântui, despre o familie prinsă în penumbra doliului." The Washington Post „O descriere înduioșătoare a iubirii filiale. Tatăl și fiul se confruntă cu o lume a suferinței invizibile, de dimensiuni inimaginabile." The New Yorker „Powers continuă să pună întrebări pline de îndrăzneală despre starea lumii în care trăim și despre efectele greșelilor noastre." NPR

National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Playground and The Overstory, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. "The most lavishly ambitious American novel since Gravity''s Rainbow . . . An outright marvel." — Washington Post Stuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular 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 scientific 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. The critically acclaimed third novel from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations is an intellectual tour-de-force that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art.

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?

This novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Bewilderment examines life in a hospital children''s ward, innocence, and the power of storytelling. In the pediatric ward of a public hospital in the heart of Los Angeles, a group of sick children is gathering. Surrogate parents to this band of stray kids, resident Richard Kraft and therapist Linda Espera are charged with keeping the group alive on make-believe alone. Determined to give hope where there is none, the adults spin a desperate anthology of stories that promise restoration and escape. But the inevitable is foreshadowed in the faces they''ve grown to love, and ultimately Richard and Linda must return to forgotten chapters in their own lives in order to make sense of the conclusion drawing near. Praise for Operation Wandering Soul National Book Award Finalist "If you have children or will have children, if you know children or can remember being a child, dare to read Operation Wandering Soul. . . . [It] is bedtime reading for the future." — USA Today "Powers''s prose soars . . . memorably capturing the moments of joy and anguish, barrenness and grace, that add up to life." — Washington Post Book World "Powers . . . continues to baffle and excite. . . . Powers has a remarkable, virtuoso voice." — Publishers Weekly "Mingling wisps of whimsy and a hard-edged, surgical view, this cuts deeply into the human condition." — Kirkus Reviews

The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and Playground. “Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist.”— New Republic Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and given his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that’s in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner’s Dilemma is a story of the power of individual experience.

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

Listowieść to napisana z rozmachem i pasją historia aktywizmu i oporu, a zarazem olśniewający opis i pean na cześć świata przyrody. Dwunasta powieść Richarda Powersa rośnie od korzeni po koronę, aby wrócić poprzez nią do nasion, kreśląc po drodze koncentryczne kręgi przeplatających się wątków – od przedwojennego Nowego Jorku aż do wojen o lasy toczonych pod koniec XX w. na północnym zachodzie nad Pacyfikiem i na terenach położonych bardziej na północ. Obok nas istnieje równoległy świat – olbrzymi, powolny, pełen wzajemnych powiązań, zaradny, wspaniale pomysłowy, a dla nas prawie niewidzialny. Powers opowiada o garstce ludzi, którzy uczą się widzieć ten świat i dają się wciągnąć w wir grożącej mu katastrofy. Nagroda Pulitzera 2019 "W monumentalnej Listowieści autorowi udaje się coś, o co mogłoby się pokusić bardzo niewielu współczesnych pisarzy zarówno ze świata sztuki, jak i nauki. Za pomocą fabularnych narzędzi Powers wciąga czytelników w perspektywę znacznie bardziej odwieczną i subtelniej rozwiniętą niż ludzki ogląd, dzięki czemu ukazuje nam się w migawkach bezkresna, pierwotna wrażliwość, a nasz własny gatunek zostaje sprowadzony do właściwych wymiarów. Gigantyczna opowieść o szczerych prawdach" Barbara Kingsolver, „New York Times Book Review”

Del autor de "El clamor de los bosques", Premio Pulitzer 2019 En "Orfeo", el compositor Peter Els abre la puerta de su casa una tarde para hallar a la policía en su umbral. Su laboratorio de microbiología casero, su último experimento en su carrera vital por hallar música en patrones sorprendentes, ha levantado las sospechas de Seguridad Nacional. Llevado por el pánico a la redada, Els se fuga, ganándose el sobrenombre de "el Bach Bioterrorista", y concibe un plan para transformar esa desastrosa colisión con el Estado de seguridad en una inolvidable obra de arte que redescubrirá a su audiencia los sonidos de su entorno.

Cross-Step Waltz is one of the newest social dance forms, spreading quickly because it''s easy to learn yet endlessly innovative, satisfying for both beginners and the most experienced dancers. It rotates and travels like the original waltz, but the addition of the cross-step opens up a wide range of playful yet gracefully flowing variations. In this comprehensive dancer''s guide to Cross-Step Waltz, you will learn: ● How to dance more than 250 variations of Cross-Step Waltz, including basics, turns, grapevines, pivots, Tango-inspired figures, variations in cradle and shadow position, and ways to conclude a dance with flair. ● How to become a better dance partner, whether you dance as a Lead, a Follow, or both. ● How to dance more musically, and how to create your own Cross-Step Waltz variations. ● How to dance Cross-Step Waltz to a wide variety of music, and how to transition between Cross-Step Waltz and other dances. ● Finally, in a series of essays by our students, you''ll learn how dancing Cross-Step Waltz can change your life! In addition to being fully described in writing, each of the 250+ variations is illustrated by a demo video on a companion website.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List Named One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, 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.

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.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground braids together two very different stories in a novel on "the Promethean messianism of corporate America" (Greil Marcus, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle). In one story, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura''s hometown. Clare''s stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body''s life is changed forever by Clare. Gain''s stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives. "Erudite, penetrating and splendidly written . . . There is no gainsaying the remarkable artistry and authority with which Powers, in this dazzling book, continues to impart his singular vision of our life and times." —Bruce Bawer, The New York Times Book Review "Richard Powers'' powerful and peculiar novel, Gain , is the largest compliment any author has paid to the American reading public in decades." —Thomas M. Disch, The Washington Post Book World "Subtle, provocative, and powerful . . . Richard Powers'' deceptively simple and terrifyingly effective novel Gain says it better than anyone has in a long time: buyer beware." —Rick Moody, Voice Literary Supplement " Gain only confirms that Powers is, in fact, a major American novelist." —Adam Kirsch, The New Republic

From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Echo Maker" comes a playful and provocative novel about the discovery of the happiness gene. Funny, fast, and magical, "Generosity" celebrates both science and the freed imagination.

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.