The Echo Maker

Resumen del libro

Winner of the 2006 National Book Award

The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review).

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark's accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition

Biografía del autor

Richard Powers es autor de doce novelas, entre las que se encuentra "Galatea 2.2", "Ganancia", "El tiempo de nuestras canciones" y "El eco de la memoria", por la que fue galardonado con el National Book Award. Asimismo, ha sido receptor de una beca Mac Arthur, cuatro veces finalista de National Book Critics Circle Award y profesor en las universidades de Illinois y Standford. Con "El clamor de los bosques" fue finalista del Premio Man Booker 2018 y ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2019. Vive al pie de las Grandes Montañas Humeantes.<br> También disponible de Richard Powers en AdN: "El clamor de los bosques" y "Orfeo".