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Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction

A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 best-selling author of .

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by , , , , , , , , , , and

The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain…

With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?

When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness.

Russell and Candace, now lovers, fail to protect Thassa from the growing media circus. Thassa's congenital optimism is soon severely tested. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the country at large.

What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and finally magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence.

Una novela sobre el recuerdo y el olvido, de la mano de uno de los escritores con más talento de Estados Unidos.

Una llamada anónima avisa de un accidente en una carretera a las afueras de Nebraska. Mark Shluter es trasladado al hospital donde entra en coma, junto a él había una nota anónima con un extraño mensaje: «No soy Nadie, pero esta noche en la carretera del norte, DIOS me guió hasta ti para que pudieras vivir y traer de vuelta a alguien más». Karin Shluter, hermano de Mark, vuelve a su ciudad natal para cuidar de su hermano. Educados por padres inestables, ninguno de los dos ha encontrado el equilibrio en sus vidas. Un día, Mark despierta del coma con un extraño caso de síndrome de Capgras, un tipo de amnesia en la que el afectado recuerda todos los detalles referentes a su vida salvo los sentimientos ligados a ellos. ¿Vio Mark algo que no debía saber aquella noche en la carretera?