Playground Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2024
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26.09.2024
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9781804950838
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT
'Ascends to the plane of true, indisputable greatness' OBSERVER
'An ambitious, rapturous epic' GUARDIAN
'Magisterial, moving and thought-provoking ... a beautiful love letter to our oceans' NEW SCIENTIST
Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school. As adults, Rafi gets lost in literature, while Todd's enters the world of AI. Elsewhere, Evie sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs; Ina grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.
All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, marked for humanity's next great adventure.
Set in the world's largest ocean, Playground interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity.
'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 live' PERCIVAL EVERETT
'Brilliant, captivating and important' ANDREA WULF
'An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways - gripping, alarming and uplifting' EMMA DONOGHUE
Praise for Richard Powers:
'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN
'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER
'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY
'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES
'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD
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A Masterpiece about Nature, Talent and the Future of Mankind
With the dedication of this book to Richard Powers' mother for handing him a book about the ocean, one of themes is already set: where do our childhoods lead us? For Todd, his father's obsession with games and competition leads him to develop a social media platform with gamified elements. For his estranged former friend/rival Rafi, his father's drive to beat the white man at his own game leads Rafi to self-destructive perfectionism as a scholar. For Ina, growing up as the child of a military officer causes her to try and reconnect with her Polynesian home and to cope with its pollution. Meanwhile, Eveline being the daughter of the inventor of the aqualung makes her dedicate her life to marine biology. Now all their lives are about to change forever as an oceansteading project approaches the small Pacific island of Makatea. Powers weaves the lives, internal conflicts, and passions of his protagonists into a web while the novel asks important questions not only about nature and technology but about what we sacrifice for our talents and obsessions.
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