Longlisted For The 2024 Booker Prize From The Pulitzer Prize-winning And #1 Internationally Bestselling Author Of The Overstory Comes An Epic Tale Of Love, Friendship And Humanity’s Next Great Adventure. When Two Brilliant Misfits Bond At An Elite Chicago Private School—one A White Legacy Kid Named Todd Keane And The Other, Rafi Young, A Black Scholarship Student From The South Side—their Friendship Seems As Boundary-breaking And Limitless As The 3,000-year-old Board Game That Brings Them Together. For A Time, Not Even Simultaneously Falling In Love With Ina Aroita, Who Grew Up In Naval Bases Across The Pacific, Shakes Them. Until Finally It Does, With A Betrayal That Launches All Three Of Them On Radically Different Paths. Rafi Disappears Into Literature, And Ina Into Art. Todd, Who Once Dreamed Of Escape Into The World Beneath The Surface Of The Ocean, Revealed To Him By The Legendary Canadian Diver And Marine Biologist Evie Beaulieu, Becomes Instead One Of The Most Powerful Tech Billionaires On The Planet Whose Social Media Empire, Playground, Is Remaking The Global Order With Its Ai Breakthroughs. But Not Even Wild Success Can Insulate Todd From Mortality. As Illness Eats Away At The Brain That Built It All, He Dreams Of The Life That Could’ve Been And The Relationships He Should Never Have Let Go. Before Todd’s Final Act Is Up, Past Loves And Present Ambitions Collide On The Ravaged Polynesian Island Of Makatea, Where An Unnamed Corporation Hopes To Build The First Floating, Autonomous City On The Open Sea. Traversing Borders And Oceans, Connection And Loss, Ingenuity And Transcendence, Playground Brings To Light The Systems Of Competition, Cooperation, Commerce, Exploration And Love That Tie The Fates Of Unlikely Humans Together, In Richard Powers’ Most Transporting Work Of Fiction Yet.
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Playground
von Richard Powers
Longlisted For The 2024 Booker Prize From The Pulitzer Prize-winning And #1 Internationally Bestselling Author Of The Overstory Comes An Epic Tale Of Love, Friendship And Humanity’s Next Great Adventure. When Two Brilliant Misfits Bond At An Elite Chicago Private School—one A White Legacy Kid Named Todd Keane And The Other, Rafi Young, A Black Scholarship Student From The South Side—their Friendship Seems As Boundary-breaking And Limitless As The 3,000-year-old Board Game That Brings Them Together. For A Time, Not Even Simultaneously Falling In Love With Ina Aroita, Who Grew Up In Naval Bases Across The Pacific, Shakes Them. Until Finally It Does, With A Betrayal That Launches All Three Of Them On Radically Different Paths. Rafi Disappears Into Literature, And Ina Into Art. Todd, Who Once Dreamed Of Escape Into The World Beneath The Surface Of The Ocean, Revealed To Him By The Legendary Canadian Diver And Marine Biologist Evie Beaulieu, Becomes Instead One Of The Most Powerful Tech Billionaires On The Planet Whose Social Media Empire, Playground, Is Remaking The Global Order With Its Ai Breakthroughs. But Not Even Wild Success Can Insulate Todd From Mortality. As Illness Eats Away At The Brain That Built It All, He Dreams Of The Life That Could’ve Been And The Relationships He Should Never Have Let Go. Before Todd’s Final Act Is Up, Past Loves And Present Ambitions Collide On The Ravaged Polynesian Island Of Makatea, Where An Unnamed Corporation Hopes To Build The First Floating, Autonomous City On The Open Sea. Traversing Borders And Oceans, Connection And Loss, Ingenuity And Transcendence, Playground Brings To Light The Systems Of Competition, Cooperation, Commerce, Exploration And Love That Tie The Fates Of Unlikely Humans Together, In Richard Powers’ Most Transporting Work Of Fiction Yet.
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Rezension von CeprosiosPlayground is a polyphonically structured novel that deliberately resists narrative closure. Its loosely connected storylines produce a fragmented reading experience that mirrors a reality neither characters nor readers can fully comprehend as a whole. The novel explores human action at the intersection of technological progress, ecological responsibility, and moral self-justification. Progress appears fundamentally ambivalent, climate change is foregrounded as a central ethical challenge, and truth emerges as a fragile construct shaped by emotion, habit, and rationalization. Stylistically, Playground fuses narrative prose with essayistic reflection, generating an intellectually and emotionally urgent tone. Ultimately, the novel presents the world as a “playground” humans actively shape without fully grasping the consequences of their actions. Rather than offering resolution, it diagnoses the contemporary difficulty of distinguishing right from wrong when wrongdoing feels justified, exposing the fragility of truth and responsibility in the present moment.
Rezension von HannaI took me some time to figure out the time-line and the connection between the characters but overall it was a very interesting story about friendship, the beauty of the ocean and the development of the internet and AI with all underlying consequences.