Bewilderment

Powers, Richard

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY

’Bewilderment is both touching and finely written’ Telegraph’It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers’s message’ Sunday Times’Powers has the rare gift of being able to deal with big ideas while keeping you interested in the lives and emotions of his characters.’ Sebastian Faulks

Picked as one of the ’Best Books of 2021’ in the Sunday Times

A moving new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling and Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory. Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old.

His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from school for smashing his friend’s face with a thermos.

What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, all while fostering his son’s desperate attempt to save this one. At the heart of Bewilderment lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?

Kustantaja: Penguin
Sidosasu: Kovakantinen
ean: 9781785152634
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2021
Kirjastoluokka: 84.2 Kaunokirjallisuus
Hyllypaikka (Sivullinen kirjakauppa): English fiction new 221217b