One of the greatest storytellers of our time, the Booker Prize 2021 shortlisted author of Bewilderment and The Overstory explores the meaning of life on Earth. At the heart of Bewilderment lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?
Few works of fiction have the power to change who we are and how we conceive our place in the universe – but Richard Powers Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning masterpiece The Overstory is one. For Barack Obama, Powers ‘changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it’.
Now, after a year in which global events have illustrated Powers’ concern with the fragility, interconnectedness and preciousness of human life and nature with more poignancy than anyone dared to imagine, he joins us for a conversation recorded in London in October 2021 with Rosie Boycott of 5x15, to explore the themes of his Booker Prize shortlisted new novel, Bewilderment.
Don’t miss this rare chance to dive into a masterpiece of imaginative storytelling from one of the most distinguished and lauded authors of our age.
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