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Bewilderment: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

Name: Bewilderment: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Author: Richard Powers
ISBN: 9781785152634

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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2021
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF SEPTEMBER 2021

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY

'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN

'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER

'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY

Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from school for smashing his friend's face with a thermos.

What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, all while fostering his son's desperate attempt to save this one.

At the heart of Bewilderment lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?

'Both touching and finely written' TELEGRAPH

'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES

'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD

ISBN9781785152634

PublisherWilliam Heinemann

Publication Date09/21/21

Pages288

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ISBN9781785152634

PublisherWilliam Heinemann

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„His mother was crushed to death when he was seven. His beloved dog died of confusion a few months later. What more reason for disturbed behavior did any doctor need?“ Eine außergewöhnliche und berührende Vater-Sohn-Geschichte - ein Lese-Highlight!
Sep 21, 2024
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„His mother was crushed to death when he was seven. His beloved dog died of confusion a few months later. What more reason for disturbed behavior did any doctor need?“ Eine außergewöhnliche und berührende Vater-Sohn-Geschichte - ein Lese-Highlight!
Sep 21, 2024
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I don't knoooooow. I want to give this a better rating because I haven't read a lot of books that talk about similar topics but at the same time I can't really justify a better rating. I found it very interesting to read about Robin and his behavioral patterns as well as his conviction and passion for animals. This is something I think a lot about - how I would've reacted and how it would've influenced me as a child if I hadn't suppressed the knowledge of how horrible we treat animals. What I didn't enjoy and often only skimmed or skipped were the parts about the different planets. Don't get me wrong - I love SciFi and I'm very interested in planets and astronomy and space and other life forms. But in the way the author talked about them, I felt stupid and I didn't understand at first if these planets were supposed to be real or what the matter was with them. I started to feel very bored about those parts when I realized that it didn't lead to anything (aka that the author hadn't intended the dicovering of life on other planets to be a real possibility in the book) . And the ending? I don't know. Not gonna spoil anything of course, but I felt like the author chose the easiest way to end the book. It wasn't a horrible ending and it make some sense but it wasn't what I had expected and like i said, felt like an easy solution for a problem the author didn't want to make effort to solve. I was surprised and it felt rushed and very abruptly.
Sep 23, 2022
3.0
I don't knoooooow. I want to give this a better rating because I haven't read a lot of books that talk about similar topics but at the same time I can't really justify a better rating. I found it very interesting to read about Robin and his behavioral patterns as well as his conviction and passion for animals. This is something I think a lot about - how I would've reacted and how it would've influenced me as a child if I hadn't suppressed the knowledge of how horrible we treat animals. What I didn't enjoy and often only skimmed or skipped were the parts about the different planets. Don't get me wrong - I love SciFi and I'm very interested in planets and astronomy and space and other life forms. But in the way the author talked about them, I felt stupid and I didn't understand at first if these planets were supposed to be real or what the matter was with them. I started to feel very bored about those parts when I realized that it didn't lead to anything (aka that the author hadn't intended the dicovering of life on other planets to be a real possibility in the book) . And the ending? I don't know. Not gonna spoil anything of course, but I felt like the author chose the easiest way to end the book. It wasn't a horrible ending and it make some sense but it wasn't what I had expected and like i said, felt like an easy solution for a problem the author didn't want to make effort to solve. I was surprised and it felt rushed and very abruptly.
Sep 23, 2022
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3.0
I don't knoooooow. I want to give this a better rating because I haven't read a lot of books that talk about similar topics but at the same time I can't really justify a better rating. I found it very interesting to read about Robin and his behavioral patterns as well as his conviction and passion for animals. This is something I think a lot about - how I would've reacted and how it would've influenced me as a child if I hadn't suppressed the knowledge of how horrible we treat animals. What I didn't enjoy and often only skimmed or skipped were the parts about the different planets. Don't get me wrong - I love SciFi and I'm very interested in planets and astronomy and space and other life forms. But in the way the author talked about them, I felt stupid and I didn't understand at first if these planets were supposed to be real or what the matter was with them. I started to feel very bored about those parts when I realized that it didn't lead to anything (aka that the author hadn't intended the dicovering of life on other planets to be a real possibility in the book) . And the ending? I don't know. Not gonna spoil anything of course, but I felt like the author chose the easiest way to end the book. It wasn't a horrible ending and it make some sense but it wasn't what I had expected and like i said, felt like an easy solution for a problem the author didn't want to make effort to solve. I was surprised and it felt rushed and very abruptly.
Sep 22, 2022
3.0
I don't knoooooow. I want to give this a better rating because I haven't read a lot of books that talk about similar topics but at the same time I can't really justify a better rating. I found it very interesting to read about Robin and his behavioral patterns as well as his conviction and passion for animals. This is something I think a lot about - how I would've reacted and how it would've influenced me as a child if I hadn't suppressed the knowledge of how horrible we treat animals. What I didn't enjoy and often only skimmed or skipped were the parts about the different planets. Don't get me wrong - I love SciFi and I'm very interested in planets and astronomy and space and other life forms. But in the way the author talked about them, I felt stupid and I didn't understand at first if these planets were supposed to be real or what the matter was with them. I started to feel very bored about those parts when I realized that it didn't lead to anything (aka that the author hadn't intended the dicovering of life on other planets to be a real possibility in the book) . And the ending? I don't know. Not gonna spoil anything of course, but I felt like the author chose the easiest way to end the book. It wasn't a horrible ending and it make some sense but it wasn't what I had expected and like i said, felt like an easy solution for a problem the author didn't want to make effort to solve. I was surprised and it felt rushed and very abruptly.
Sep 22, 2022