Used book – The Overstory, Richard Powers, Serge Chauvin

A breathtaking eco-fiction that highlights the connection between humans and nature, based on the ecological crisis that today's society, too connected to the cyberworld, refuses to see.

In this new novel, Richard Powers embraces a subject as vast as the world itself: nature and our relationship with it. The fates of the protagonists of this story—a psychologist, a student, a video game designer, an amateur photographer, a visionary botanist—intertwine around what is perhaps the world's first and last mystery: the communication between trees. Through an eco-fiction of symphonic proportions, with a redwood tree threatened with destruction at its core, Richard Powers explores the ecological crisis and our slow drowning in the cyber-world, reminding us that without nature, our culture is but a ruin of the soul.