Stromy znamenají svět - Nic kolem nás není tak společenské jako stromy – Powers Richard (2020)

Do we still know personal commitment? Are we able to take risks for the boldly understood common good? For the future, for the generations that we hope will follow? Richard Powers, in this gripping choral ode to the roots of life, brings to light a passionate engagement against a world full of fears, coldness, indifference, apathy, hatred, and selfishness. He depicts the risks arising from both a benevolently petty and a bloodily predatory life, as well as the resistance they may provoke. He demonstrates that a contented conventional life must be balanced by the rebellious sacrifice of others. Both attitudes have been inherited from our ancestors, and both opposing groups are essential for survival. Both also pay for their convictions – which one pays more? Are there living examples around us? What if we have sent all the biased words into exile, making them foreign, unknown, and incomprehensible? The novel presents several breathtaking, unique love stories with themes of inexplicable sparks of love and the power of emotion that can turn the world upside down. It offers us an adventurous thriller as well as a novel – a tragedy about guilt and punishment. It also features a captivating professional novel, which needs just a few sentences to accurately describe a session in a clinical psychologist's office or...