Summary
From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Overstory and Bewilderment
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
“A virtuoso performance” - SUNDAY TIMES “Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful” - INDEPENDENT “A magnificent and moving novel” - LOS ANGELES TIMES
Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab—where he is conducting the latest experi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804951767 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804951765 |
| Author: | Richard Powers |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 267g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Extraordinary and confounding, mind-spinning and wonderful * Independent on Sunday *
Powers is prodigiously talented. besides being fearfully erudite, he writes lyrical prose, has a seductive sense of wonder and is an acute observer of social life * New York Times *
A virtuoso performance * Sunday Times *
A magnificent and moving novel * Los Angeles Times *
The best novel about classical music … since Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus * Independent *
Orfeo has a galloping finale that is sweet, funny, sad and haunting all at once … A formidably intelligent, ecstatically noisy novel * Guardian *
Extraordinary … His evocations of music, let alone lost love, simply soar off the page … Once again, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our finest novelists * Newsday *
About The Author
Richard Powers
Richard Powers has published fourteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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