(powers)/generosity.(fiction) editado por Penguin
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Provocative... fascinating... dazzling * Ron Charles, The Washington Post * Powers... is one of our most scientifically literate novelists, with a gift for exploring complex science with cool clarity... He can nail emotional complexities with precision, while using his characters to explore how emerging technologies might shape our lives... Beautifully expressed * Daily Telegraph * Compulsive... Powers [is] a modern Renaissance man, as at home in the language of science as in the laboratories of literature... A meditation on the human condition. * Observer * Brilliantly crafted... [Generosity] should confirm Powers's status as one of our finest novelists of ideas * New Scientist * Generosity throngs with vivid personalities... Compelling * Independent * Smart, tender and wrenchingly anxious about the approaching era... Generosity is a bracingly intelligent fable about the choices that face us. * Sunday Telegraph * Powers is one of the best writers working now. * Audrey Niffenegger *
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2010 It all begins when a young Algerian woman, Thassa, arrives in Russell Stone's writing class. Her stories reveal a horrific past, but her presence sends spirits soaring. This glimpse of pure happiness in the most improbable of guises leaves Russell feeling as troubled as it does entranced. And he isn't alone: Thassa has caught the eye of Dr Kurton, a scientist in search of the 'happiness gene'. He sees in her the key to the breakthrough that will make his name and change history. But can the quality that makes her so valuable survive the ruthless glare of media attention? 'Smart, tender and wrenchingly anxious about the approaching era... Generosity is a bracingly intelligent fable about the choices that face us.' Sunday Telegraph
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