En smakebit på søndag: The Overstory

Denne boken har jeg såvidt startet på, og kommet til side 24 av 502. The Overstory kom videre til Bookerprisens kortliste, så jeg skal lese videre med stor interesse. Margaret Atwood har uttalt at “If Powers were an American writer of the 19th century, which writer would he be? He’d probably be the Herman Melville of ‘Moby-Dick.’ Jeg har ikke lest noe av Richard Powers tidligere, men han skal visst være en formidabel historieforteller, og så langt liker jeg boken. Trær er sentralt, og særlig et som ble plantet for mange generasjoner siden og har vokst seg stort og sterkt:

No other family in the country had a tree like the Hoel tree. And no other family in Iowa could match the multigeneration photo project for pure weirdness. And yet the adults seemed sworn never to say where the project was going. Neither his grandparents nor his father could explain to him the point of the thick flip-book. His grandfather said, "I promised my father and he promised his." But another time, from the same man: "It makes you think differnet about things, don't it?" It did.

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