![]() 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. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. ![]() A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. ![]() The perfect literary escape.Īn artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. 'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann PatchettĪ 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 Obama RICHARD POWERS is the bestselling author of Bewilderment, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. ** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 ** ![]()
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