by Richard Powers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781529115253
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«Bewilderment» is the literary fiction novel by Richard Powers, published by Penguin Random House in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Widowed astrobiologist Theo Byrne raises Robin, a sensitive nine-year-old nature lover whose disruptive behavior leaves him on the verge of school expulsion. Instead of medicating him, Theo turns to an experimental method to take his son to the planets he studies, while the world seems bent on destroying itself.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award and the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in family, nature, and the environment.
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
