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    Die Wurzeln des Lebens : roman [German] / Richard Powers ; Aus dem Amerikanischens von Manfred Allié und Gabriele Kempf-Allié.
    by Powers, Richard, 1957-
    Fischer Taschenbuch, 2020.
    Call #:FICTION POW
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  • Trees -- United States -- Fiction.
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  • Eccentrics and eccentricities -- United States -- Fiction.
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  • Trees -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- Fiction.
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  • Green movement -- United States -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Forest conservation -- United States -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Human ecology -- Fiction.
    •  
  • Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.
    • ISBN: 
    9783596703128 (pbk.)
    Uniform title: 
    The Overstory. German
    Alternate title: 
    The overstory [German]
    Description: 
    618 p. ; 19 cm.
    Notes: 
    First published in English, in New York, in April 2018, as: The Overstory.
    In German.
    Summary: 
    "In Richard Powers Erzählwelt ist alles miteinander verknüpft. Die Menschen sind miteinander verwurzelt wie ein Wald. Sie bilden eine Familie aus Freunden, die sich zum Schutz der Bäume zusammenfinden: der Sohn von Siedlern, die unter dem letzten der ausgestorbenen Kastanienbäume Amerikas lebten; eine junge Frau, deren Vater aus China eine Maulbeere mitbrachte; ein Soldat, der im freien Fall von einem Feigenbaum aufgefangen wurde; und die unvergessliche Patricia Westerford, die als Botanikerin die Kommunikation der Bäume entdeckte. Sie alle tun sich zusammen, um die ältesten Mammutbäume zu retten - und geraten in eine Spirale von Politik und Gewalt, die nicht nur ihr Leben, sondern auch unsere Welt bedroht." --goodreads.com.
    "An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. 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. These four, and five other strangers―each summoned in different ways by trees―are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe."--From publisher.
    Genre: 
    German language materials
    Epic fiction.
    Ecofiction.
    Other authors: 
    Allié, Manfred.
    Kempf-Allié, Gabriele.
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