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The story goes like this: the main character, Thomas, is a collector for a power plant that runs on "kindness." A collector is someone who wears a machine called a Suction Machine on his back and goes around town collecting kindness. Thomas lives off the wages he receives from the power plant.
Thomas supports his family of four with what he earns, but they are very poor due to Thomas' own low sales.
At that time, Thomas' great aunt is hospitalized. In order to earn money for her hospitalization, he begins to visit people called Kindnesses, who are difficult to collect, in search of more kindness.
They tell him a major secret that the Kindness Power Plant is hiding, and the reason why his father, an engineer at the power plant, died.
Thus Thomas begins to have doubts about the power plant where he works and believes in, and he becomes troubled and confused. However, after meeting his grandfather, whom he learns was one of the ten people who helped rebuild the town after the war, his grandfather's younger brother, his great aunt, a researcher into methods of generating electricity through kindness, and the people of the downtown area who have been left behind by the town's development, Thomas comes to a big decision.
And so, one day, he finally takes an unbelievable action.
This is the story of a kind-hearted man's kind adventure as he searches for a mysterious power plant called the Kindness Power Plant.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In this town, electricity is made from human kindness. Everyone knows it. Everyone is proud of it. Nobody has ever seen it happen.Thomas is a collector. Every day he walks the town in yellow coveralls and a green cap, gathering fragments of kindness - a feather from a rescued pigeon, a fish bone from a stray cat's meal - and carries them back to the Kindness Power Plant in the machine strapped to his back. The town that was reduced to ash in the war is now the cleanest, richest city in the country. The electricity is free. The children run up to him in the street to look inside his Suctor.He is not a good collector. He earns barely enough to feed his family, and when his great-aunt is admitted to hospital he cannot pay for the operation. So he does what he has always avoided: he starts calling on the Off-Grids - the lamp-maker who refuses to use electricity, the rancher whose workers have broken down under round-the-clock shifts, the crank in the woods with a dog the size of a bear.They are not the frightening people he was told about. They simply know something.What Thomas learns, from an old fixer in the underworld and a scientist dying in a hospital bed and a physicist nobody will speak to, is that the plant runs on almost nothing but a lie, that his father did not die in an accident, and that the residue burned off every day is being sold abroad under another name. And that the men who built all of it - heroes with statues in the square - began with nothing but the wish to save the town they were born in.Kindness Power Plant is a novel about the cost of comfort: about what a society agrees not to look at in exchange for a good life, about power that is acquired for good reasons and cannot be given up, and about a young man who has to decide whether telling the truth to people who did not ask for it makes him a hero or something much worse.This is a new English translation, fully revised from the original edition. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798294578008
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In this town, electricity is made from human kindness. Everyone knows it. Everyone is proud of it. Nobody has ever seen it happen.Thomas is a collector. Every day he walks the town in yellow coveralls and a green cap, gathering fragments of kindness - a feather from a rescued pigeon, a fish bone from a stray cat's meal - and carries them back to the Kindness Power Plant in the machine strapped to his back. The town that was reduced to ash in the war is now the cleanest, richest city in the country. The electricity is free. The children run up to him in the street to look inside his Suctor.He is not a good collector. He earns barely enough to feed his family, and when his great-aunt is admitted to hospital he cannot pay for the operation. So he does what he has always avoided: he starts calling on the Off-Grids - the lamp-maker who refuses to use electricity, the rancher whose workers have broken down under round-the-clock shifts, the crank in the woods with a dog the size of a bear.They are not the frightening people he was told about. They simply know something.What Thomas learns, from an old fixer in the underworld and a scientist dying in a hospital bed and a physicist nobody will speak to, is that the plant runs on almost nothing but a lie, that his father did not die in an accident, and that the residue burned off every day is being sold abroad under another name. And that the men who built all of it - heroes with statues in the square - began with nothing but the wish to save the town they were born in.Kindness Power Plant is a novel about the cost of comfort: about what a society agrees not to look at in exchange for a good life, about power that is acquired for good reasons and cannot be given up, and about a young man who has to decide whether telling the truth to people who did not ask for it makes him a hero or something much worse.This is a new English translation, fully revised from the original edition. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798294578008
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