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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 2024, according to the Washington Post and AARP • A Time Must-Read Book of 2024 • One of NPR’s “Books We Love” for 2024 • An Economist, The New Yorker, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024 • Selected as Fall 2024 “Fiction to Read” by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, People, and Parade
A magisterial new 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 new 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.
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About the Book
An emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus in which composer Peter Els must transform a disastrous collision with the security state into an unforgettable work of art. A sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and serves as a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. A heartrending novel with soaring descriptions of the natural world, a tantalizing vision of life beyond, and a moving account of a father and son’s ferocious love. A magisterial new novel—set in the world’s largest ocean—that interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment with a deep exploration of our shared humanity.
What Readers are Saying
“Bravo, Richard Powers, for hitting so many high notes with Orfeo and contributing to the fraction of books that really matter.” —Heller McAlpin, NPR “It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it…It changed how I see things and that’s always, for me, a mark of a book worth reading.” —Barack Obama “Richard Powers is one of our country’s greatest living writers. He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I’ve ever read. I’m in awe of his talent.” —Oprah Winfrey “Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep, and alive.” —Percival Everett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company (September 24, 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 1324086033
ISBN-13 : 978-1324086031
Item Weight : 1.48 pounds
Dimensions : 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches
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Customers find the book thought-provoking and fascinating. They describe the plot as engaging with interconnected storylines. The characters are described as interesting and solid. The imagery is described as exquisite, vivid, and gorgeous. The story touches on intimacy, friendship, love, personal identity, loss, and regret. It sheds light on the impact of climate change and environmental destruction on ocean life. However, opinions differ on the writing style – some find it glorious and natural, while others consider it simple.
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