Bewilderment

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen

Verfasser:
Powers, Richard

Verfasser Angabe:
Richard Powers

Sprache:
Englisch

• Natur
• Allein erziehender Vater
• Familie
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Todesfall
• Asperger-Syndrom
• Trauer

Verlag:
Hutchinson

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2021

Umfang:
278 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-7851-5264-1

Interessenskreise:
American Literature

Inhalt:
Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist 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 school for smashing his friend's face with a 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, all while fostering his son's desperate attempt to save this one.

At the heart of Bewilderment lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?