num_pages: 449
description: Winner of the 2006 National Book AwardThe Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" (Booklist, starred review).On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark's accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition. In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists.
language: English
title: The Echo Maker
titlecomplete: The Echo Maker
characters: Bonnie Travis, Barbara Gillespie, Duane Cain, Mark Schluter, Sylvie Weber, Tommy Rupp, Karin Schluter, Gerald Weber, Daniel Riegel
genres: American, Book Club, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Psychology, Mystery, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 11085
places: Nebraska
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador