Richard Powers
Author
Publisher
Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Esta novela de Richard Powers contiene varias historias con un común denominador: las relaciones entre el ser humano y el bosque. Son narraciones agrupadas bajo los epígrafes o subtítulos de Raíces, Tronco, Copa y Semillas: un jefe de carga de las Fuerzas Aéreas en Vietnam sale disparado por el cielo y se salva al caer sobre un baniano. Un artista hereda cien años de retratos fotográficos, todos del mismo castaño americano maldito. Una universitaria...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. "Richard Powers, whose novels combine the wonders of science with the marvels of art, astonishes us in different ways with each new book." -Heller McAlpin, NPR Books. 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....
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Follows the marriage of David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, and Della Daley, an African American singer, as they, along with their extraordinarily gifted children, struggle to overcome the racial injustices of the 1960s.