Playground - Richard Powers

Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game.It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs; Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of... Zobrazit více