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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNINGMAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER 'A riveting account of one of history s most essential and paradoxical figures. Christopher Nolan#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER The definitive biographyof J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative. A masterful account of Oppenheimer s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America s own transformation. It is a tour de force. Los Angeles Times Book Review A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer s essential nature. It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior. The New York Times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to a glittering novelist one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India s 1,000 other midnight s children, all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Forty years after its publication, Midnight s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.