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Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance: From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of `Bewilderment`

By the author of Booker Prize Shortlisted `Bewilderment` and `The Overstory`In the spring of 1914, renowned German photographer August Sander takes a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Richard Powers` brilliant and compelling first novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. In one, a chance museum-goer becomes obsessed with the photo; and in the other, a young technical writer in Boston discovers he has a personal connection to it. The three stories connect in an entirely surprising way, describing nothing less than the history of a century of brutality and progress.”Nothing less than brilliant” John Updike

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