BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORY

In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band - a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapist - are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.

Operation Wandering Soul is a novel about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive, a little longer, the vanishing narratives of childhood.

'Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at work in the English language today' Daily Telegraph

'Vast and daring... A fully realized and major work of art.' Chicago Tribune Reissued and re-jacketed in paperback.

About the Author
Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including Orfeo (which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), The Overstory (which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize) and Bewilderment, shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. He is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and the National Book Award, and has been a four-time NBCC finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Reviews
In his ambition to define and dissect our culture, Powers is an agile younger brother to Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon * Newsday *
If you have children or will have children, if you know children or can remember being a child, dare to read Operation Wandering Soul... Dense in knowledge, rich in imagination, powerful in expression, [it] is bedtime reading for the future. Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare it describes, children out too late at night, far from home, lost, the wandering souls of the future, our future. * USA Today *
Powers's prose soars like the most magnificent of choirs, memorably capturing the moments of joy and anguish, barrenness and grace, that add up to life. * Washington Post *
Vast and daring... A fully realized and major work of art. * Chicago Tribune *



Book Information
ISBN 9781848871434
Author Richard Powers
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publisher Atlantic Books
Weight(grams) 278g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 25mm