pstrongDazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding. --emPhiladelphia InquireremstrongppstrongThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of emThe Overstory emand the forthcoming emBewildermentem.strongppstrongA writer of blistering intellect . . . Powers is a novelist of ideas and a novelist of witness, and in both respects, he has few American peers. -- Richard Eder, emLos Angeles TimesemstrongbrppIn the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers's brilliant and compelling novel. p pAs the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The young narrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he has a personal link with it. The three stories connect in a surpris