'Bare summaries do not begin to do justice to the richness of Powers' imagination.' Guardian
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who he realises looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor.
Shattered by her brother's refusal - or inability - to recognise her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case studies describing the almost infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognises Mark as a very unusual case of Capgras Syndrome and is keen to investigate. But what he discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self. Meanwhile,...
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'Bare summaries do not begin to do justice to the richness of Powers' imagination.' Guardian
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who he realises looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor.
Shattered by her brother's refusal - or inability - to recognise her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case studies describing the almost infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognises Mark as a very unusual case of Capgras Syndrome and is keen to investigate. But what he discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened on the night of his accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.
Richard Powers' new book is a profound and riveting novel that explores how memory, instinct and relationships make us who we are.
