Books like The Silence
Five people gather in a Manhattan apartment on Super Bowl Sunday when the screens go black and the digital world stops, leaving only silence and each other.
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Zero K
A man visits his billionaire father at a remote desert compound where his stepmother is about to be cryogenically preserved, and the facility's promise of life after death unsettles them both.
Cosmopolis
A billionaire currency trader drives across Manhattan in a limousine on a single day, watching his fortune and the world order disintegrate in real time.
Life & Times of Michael K
Michael K, a gardener with a harelip and a slow way of speaking, sets out across a South Africa torn by civil war to take his sick mother back to the countryside where she grew up, and keeps trying to live on his own terms, outside every camp.
The Sundial
The inhabitants of a decaying mansion become convinced the world will end and they will be the chosen survivors.
The Stranger
A man in French Algeria kills an Arab on a beach for no particular reason and is condemned less for the murder than for his failure to cry at his mother's funeral.
The Passenger
In 1980, Bobby Western, a salvage diver in New Orleans, dives on a crashed private jet and finds that one passenger is missing, and soon men in suits come asking questions, while he is haunted by his brilliant dead sister.
Barabbas
Barabbas, the thief freed in place of Jesus, watches the crucifixion from a distance and can't stop thinking about the man who died in his place, or about the people who believe in him.
The Candy House
The companion to A Visit from the Goon Squad: a vast network of characters connected by technology, consciousness, and the question of what happens to the self when it's captured in data.
Playground
Four strangers on a Pacific island confront their pasts and each other, and the ocean becomes a stage for Powers' latest meditation on human connection and ecological grief.
Nausea
A philosopher in 1930s France discovers that the sheer existence of objects fills him with revulsion, and his diary charts the horror of a world without meaning.
Winter in the Blood
An unnamed young Blackfeet man drifts between his mother's ranch on the reservation and the bars of Montana towns, looking for the woman who took his rifle and for a reason to care.
Fortune Smiles
Six stories, among them two North Korean defectors struggling to adjust to life in Seoul and a former Stasi prison warden in Berlin who cannot admit what happened there.