A New York Times Bestseller The National Book Award winning author of The Echo Maker delivers a novel at once "magnificent and moving" (David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times).

An experimental composer becomes a fugitive after his home microbiology lab, set up to find music in surprising patterns, results in a Homeland Security raid.

Autorentext
Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Klappentext

In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab-the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns-has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive and hatches a plan to transform this disastrous collision with the security state into an unforgettable work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around it.

Zusammenfassung

• New York Times Bestseller * Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize * Longlisted for the National Book Award * The National Book Award winning author of The Echo Maker delivers a novel at once magnificent and moving (David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times)."