Time of our Singing

Resumen del libro

Jonah, Joseph and Ruth are the children of mixed-race parents determined to protect them from the grinding effects of race.
Hothouse children, they are all musically talented, but they cannot be protected from the world for long. Jonah becomes a successful young tenor, but the world of opera can only accept him as a 'brilliant Negro singer'; Joseph, our narrator, becomes a pianist and devotes his talents to the service of his brother's; Ruth turns her back on classical music ('white music') and disappears, on the run with her black husband under suspicion of being a Black Panther. -Powers brilliantly and devastatingly delineates the tragedy of race in America, as it unfolds from the Civil Rights movement to Rodney King and Louis Farrakhan, through the lives and choices of one family, caught on the cusp of identities.

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".