PLAYGROUND follows four lives - a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer - that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity''s next great adventure.Powers is the author of the bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE OVERSTORY and the Booker-shortlisted BEWILDERMENT.

Praise for Richard Powers:

''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
''It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers''s message'' SUNDAY TIMES
''Refreshing, original and moving'' EVENING STANDARD

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?
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018, a wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe 'The best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period' Ann Patchett 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.

'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times 'It's a masterpiece' Tim Winton 'It's not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book' Margaret Atwood 'An astonishing performance' Benjamin Markovits, Guardian
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Adie Klarpol, jeune artiste désillusionnée, est engagée par une société d'informatique pour oeuvrer sur un mystérieux système expérimental, baptisé " la Caverne ".
Ce fabuleux simulateur d'univers virtuels en 3D permet, comme par magie, de revisiter les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art. Au même moment à Beyrouth, Taimur Martin, professeur d'anglais, est pris en otage par des fondamentalistes islamistes. Isolé dans son cachot, seules sa mémoire et son imagination lui autorisent un peu d'évasion. Les deux histoires, l'une virtuelle, l'autre purement cérébrale, apparemment inconciliables, vont alors se nouer et entrer en connexion, pour le meilleur ou le pire...

Ce livre de décoration exceptionnel de part la beauté stupéfiante des photos et la sélection des intérieurs présentés, propose un tour du monde des intérieurs de style contemporain les plus étonnants, les plus achevés, les plus séduisants, du Brésil à la Californie, de la Scandinavie à l'Australie.Epuration des lignes, élégance des tons et des matières, juste choix des objets et des meubles designs, ouverture des espaces, transparence des cloisons, place de la lumière... Le minimalisme touche ici au sublime.En plus de 750 photographies et 10 thèmes, les principes du style contemporain sont ici détaillés en profondeur et superbement illustrés.Ce magnifique ouvrage est d'ores et déja un incontournable pour les passionnés de design, de décoration et d'art de vivre.