The Echo Maker
Richard Powers
  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804951682
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $22.99

The Echo Maker

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A brand new edition of the thrilling novel from one of the most celebrated literary writers

‘A psychological thriller, a flawed love story, a study of authenticity in emotions, a commentary on America's relations with itself and the world, humanity and ecology... undoubtedly magnificent’ The Times

On a winter night, Mark Schluter’s truck turns over in a near-fatal accident. His sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to look after him. But when he finally awakes from his coma, Mark believes that Karin – who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister – is really an identical impostor.

Shattered by her brother’s behaviour, Karin contacts neuroscientist Dr Gerald Weber. But what Weber 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 really happened. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.
  • Published: 27 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804951682
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Praise for The Echo Maker

Among his most stunning yet: profound and heartbreaking

Financial Times

A psychological thriller, a flawed love story, a study of authenticity in emotions, a commentary on America's relations with itself and the world, humanity and ecology ... undoubtedly magnificent

The Times

An exhilarating narrative feat ... He is a formidable talent, and this is a lucid, fiercely entertaining novel

Sebastian Faulks, Washington Post

Powers's most accessible novel ... a novel of richness and complexity, never dry or condescending, always weaving its way towards an unsettling emotional climax

Guardian

An eloquent style, a strongly localised setting and a wealth of arcane and intricately researched detail ... the novel is full of character, in cast and locale, and it impressively manages to be both meditative and compelling

Hugo Barnacle, Sunday Times
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