Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021. An astrobiologist thinks of a creative way to help his rare and troubled son in Richard Powers’ deeply moving and brilliantly original novel.
Richard Powers’ radical and remarkable novel. Nine strangers are each summoned in different ways by the natural world to save it from catastrophe.
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable, ranging from antebellum New York to the late-20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, revealing a world alongside our own: vast, slow, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world, and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
Richard Powers
About the Author
Richard Powers is the multi-award-winning American author of 13 novels, who has now been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize.Other nominated books by Richard Powers
With pitch perfect precision, Richard Powers tells the story of a musician journeying into his past as he desperately flees the present.
