Playground A Novel
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Erscheinungsdatum
24.09.2024
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W. W. Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
400 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9781324086048
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 the Year, according to the Washington Post and AARP • A Time Must-Read Book of the Year • An NPR "Books We Love" Pick • An Economist, New Yorker, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "Prepare to be awed.... [A]stonishing." Ron Charles, Washington Post The magisterial novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prizewinning 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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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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