Overstory, the (Pulitzer Prize19)’

Moving through America’s history and its landscape, this is a wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.’Really, just one of the best novels, period’ Ann PatchettAn 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. ‘It’s not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book’ Margaret Atwood ‘It’s a masterpiece’ Tim Winton ‘Radical and exciting’ Jessie Burton ‘Breathtaking’ Barbara Kingsolver ‘Dazzlingly written’ Robert Macfarlane

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Moving through America’s history and its landscape, this is a wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.’Really, just one of the best novels, period’ Ann PatchettAn 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. ‘It’s not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book’ Margaret Atwood ‘It’s a masterpiece’ Tim Winton ‘Radical and exciting’ Jessie Burton ‘Breathtaking’ Barbara Kingsolver ‘Dazzlingly written’ Robert Macfarlane»Чрезмерная история» Ричарда Пауэрса — это удивительный, волнующий роман, повествующий об истории Америки и ее ландшафте, о девяти незнакомцах, которых свела вместе разворачивающаяся природная катастрофа.Художник наследует столетние фотографические портреты, все того же обреченного американского каштана. Студентка, устраивавшая бурные вечеринки в конце 1980-х, убивает себя электрическим током, умирает и возвращается к жизни созданиями из воздуха и света. Ученый с нарушениями слуха и речи обнаруживает, что деревья общаются друг с другом. Член экипажа Военно-воздушных сил во время войны во Вьетнаме был сбит с неба, а затем спасен, упав в баньян.Книга на английском языке.

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