01816nam a22002177a 4500 20211028144116.0 211028b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781785152641 AL eng 23 813.54 POWB Richard Powers 7434 Bewilderment London Hutchinson Heinemann 2021 278 p. PB 23x15 cm. BLCR-000062 ₹559.20 ₹ ₹699.00 20% 04-10-2021 'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it. . . . It changed how I see things and that's always, for me, a mark of a book worth reading.' Barack Obama on The Overstory 'Really, just one of the best novels, period.' Ann Patchett on The Overstory 'Breathtaking.' Barbara Kingsolver on The Overstory Picked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday TimesTheo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist 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 third grade, for smashing his friend's face with a metal 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, while all the while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one. Contemporary fiction 7435 POWERS (Richard) 7436 ddc BK 219004 219004 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2021-10-12 Navakarnataka Publications Pvt.Ltd 559.20 1 813.54 POWB 075027 2022-06-08 00:00:00 2022-05-17 699.00 2021-10-28 BK