THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, TWICE BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR

She had the ocean. And the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement, all her panic and pain and love, into a place far larger than anything human.

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped ...

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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

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 wis...