DESCRIPTION : THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION \’Radical and exciting\’ Jessie Burton\’Breathtaking\’ Barbara Kingsolver\’It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it\’ Barack Obama\’Really, just one of the best novels, period\’ Ann Patchett A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. 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. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781804951781 BY (AUTHOR) Powers, Richard PUBLISHER : Cornerstone PUBLICATION DATE : August 29, 2024 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Penguin (Cornerstone) LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 198 mm x 128 mm WEIGHT : 435 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items