Die Wurzeln des Lebens

"The Overstory" is a grand epic novel that remeasures our place in the world – awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2019. In Richard Powers' narrative universe, everything is interconnected. People are rooted together like a forest. They form a family of friends united to protect the trees: the son of settlers who lived under the last of America's extinct chestnut trees; a young woman whose father brought a mulberry from China; a soldier who was caught in free fall by a fig tree; and the unforgettable Patricia Westerford, who, as a botanist, discovered the communication of trees. They all come together to save the oldest redwoods – and find themselves caught in a spiral of politics and violence that threatens not only their lives but also our world. "If Powers were a 19th-century American author, who would he be? Probably Herman Melville with 'Moby Dick.' His canvas is that large." Margaret Atwood.