by Richard Powers · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782749104898
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«Le Temps où nous chantions» is the novel by Richard Powers published by Le Cherche Midi Éditeur in paperback (765 pages, in French).
In 1939, the German Jewish physicist David Strom meets the young African American woman Delia Daley at a Marian Anderson concert. They marry and raise their three children in music, art and science, oblivious to social violence. Jonah succeeds as a tenor, Ruth joins the Black Panthers and Joseph tries to keep the family together.
The original title is The Time of Our Singing (2002); the French translation is by Nicolas Richard and this 2006 edition belongs to the Lot 49 collection.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in music, identity and the social history of the United States.
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
