The Overstory

Richard Powers "The Overstory" is a monumental work of fiction and facts that explores the climate changes and our relationship with nature with magnificent force. In "The Overstory" we follow a group of nine people who has decided to fight and defend the trees. As the story unfolds the fascinating and ever surprising world of the trees unfolds as we hear about the facts of their interconnected networks of communication and their ability to protect each other. Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019 for "The Overstory".

Richard Powers "The Overstory" is a monumental work of fiction and facts that explores the climate changes and our relationship with nature with magnificent force. In "The Overstory" we follow a group of nine people who has decided to fight and defend the trees. As the story unfolds the fascinating and ever surprising world of the trees unfolds as we hear about the facts of their interconnected networks of communication and their ability to protect each other. Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019 for "The Overstory".

THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton 'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama 'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.

THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton 'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it' Barack Obama 'Really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.

”The Overstory” af Richard Powers er en dragende fortælling om jordens mest essentielle konflikt - menneskeheden versus naturen. En parallel verden findes ved siden af os. Sammenkoblet, ressourcefuld, langsom, opfindsom og næsten skjult for os. Det er denne verden en håndfuld mennesker indser værdien af at kæmpe for - inden katastrofen indtræder. I "The Overstory" bliver ni fremmede på hver sin mystiske vis tilkaldt og sammenbragt af skovens træer for at udkæmpe en sidste og voldelig kamp for den forsvindende skov. Fra rødder til skovkrone og tilbage til plantefrø udfolder "The Overstory" sig i koncentriske ringe af fascinerende fabler fra flere tider om kampen mellem mennesket og naturen. Richard Powers har skrevet "The Overstory" til alle læsere som med fortvivlelse iagttager menneskeheden selvforskyldte adskillelse fra verdens natur, og som håber på en symbiotisk genforening.

”The Overstory” af Richard Powers er en dragende fortælling om jordens mest essentielle konflikt - menneskeheden versus naturen. En parallel verden findes ved siden af os. Sammenkoblet, ressourcefuld, langsom, opfindsom og næsten skjult for os. Det er denne verden en håndfuld mennesker indser værdien af at kæmpe for - inden katastrofen indtræder. I "The Overstory" bliver ni fremmede på hver sin mystiske vis tilkaldt og sammenbragt af skovens træer for at udkæmpe en sidste og voldelig kamp for den forsvindende skov. Fra rødder til skovkrone og tilbage til plantefrø udfolder "The Overstory" sig i koncentriske ringe af fascinerende fabler fra flere tider om kampen mellem mennesket og naturen. Richard Powers har skrevet "The Overstory" til alle læsere som med fortvivlelse iagttager menneskeheden selvforskyldte adskillelse fra verdens natur, og som håber på en symbiotisk genforening.