Description
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.
‘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
‘Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer’ — The Guardian
‘Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality’ — The 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’ — The Sunday Times
‘Refreshing, original and moving’ — Evening Standard
‘Ascends to the plane of true, indisputable greatness’ — The Observer
‘An ambitious, rapturous epic’ — The Guardian
‘Magisterial, moving and thought-provoking…a beautiful love letter to our oceans’ — New Scientist
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
