Orfeo
#6534 of 8,085 books · #2712 in Fiction
Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2014).
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.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780393242683
- Genre
- Topics
- Music and creativitySurveillance and paranoiaLife reflection and legacy
Awards
- The Booker PrizeLonglistedMajor(2014)
Other awarded books from Richard Powers
- The Overstory (2018)1 win · 20 score
- The Echo Maker (2014)1 win · 16 score
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- Bewilderment (2024)0 wins · 4 score
- Galatea 2.2 (2004)0 wins · 4 score
- Operation Wandering Soul (1993)0 wins · 4 score
- The Gold Bug Variations (2019)0 wins · 4 score
- Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985)0 wins · 4 score
- Generosity: An Enhancement (2009)0 wins · 3 score
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