Anthony Doerr

From the award-winning author of The Shell Collector and About Grace comes an evocative memoir of the timeless beauty of Rome and the day-to-day wonderment of living, writing, and raising twin boys in a foreign city.

The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take readers from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties-metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts-and conjures nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of the universe outside themselves.

Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In 'The River Nemunas', a teenaged orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. 'Village 113' is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seedkeeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in 'Afterworld,' the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. The stories in Memory Wall show us how we figure the world, and show Anthony Doerr to be one of the masters of the form.

Впервые на русском — новейший роман от лауреата многих престижных литературных премий Энтони Дорра. Эта книга, вынашивавшаяся более десяти лет, немедленно попала в списки бестселлеров — и вот уже который месяц их не покидает. "Весь невидимый нам свет" рассказывает о двигающихся, сами того не ведая, навстречу друг другу слепой французской девочке и робком немецком мальчике, которые пытаются, каждый на свой манер, выжить, пока кругом бушует война, не потерять человеческий облик и сохранить своих близких. Это книга о любви и смерти, о том, что с нами делает война, о том, что невидимый свет победит даже самую безнадежную тьму.

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781476789019. The first novel by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happen—a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.

Short story, published in The Atlantic

When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive. How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love. Idaho, 2020: An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans? Unknown, Sometime in the Future: With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance. Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

EN BLIND FRANSK JENTE. EN FORELDRELØS TYSK GUTT. BEGGE KJEMPER FOR Å OVERLEVE. ET SKJEBNEMØTE I DET OKKUPERTE FRANKRIKE. Marie-Laure bor med faren i Paris nær det naturhistoriske museet, hvor han er låsemester for museets tusener av låser. Når Marie-Laure blir blind som seksåring, bygger pappa en perfekt miniatyr av nabolaget så hun kan memorere det med hendene og finne veien hjem på egenhånd. Når hun er tolv år, okkuperer nazistene Paris. Hun og pappa flykter til festningsbyen St. Malo ved kysten, til et familiemedlem. Med seg bærer de en hemmelighet: En juvel som kanskje er museets mest verdifulle edelsten. Har de fått utlevert den ekte steinen eller bare en av flere kopier? Den ekte steinen har en urgammel spådom over seg. Og hensynløse nazister jakter på den. I en gruveby i Tyskland vokser foreldreløse Werner opp på barnehjem. Hans tekniske begavelse skaffer ham innpass i Hitlers brutale ungdomsorganisasjonen. Werner blir sendt ut på oppdrag for å spore og knuse motstandsfolk på kryss og tvers i Europa. Sjokkert over krigens og nazistenes brutalitet, ender han i St. Malo, hvor hans skjebne flettes sammen med Marie-Laure. Med sitt lyrisk vakre språk, har Anthony Doerr skrevet en vidunderlig, fengslende og uforglemmelig historie om en blind jente og en foreldreløs gutt midt under krigens herjinger

Marie-Laure é uma jovem cega que vive com o pai, o encarregado das chaves do Museu Nacional de História Natural em Paris. Quando as tropas de Hitler ocupam a França, pai e filha refugiam-se na cidade fortificada de Saint-Malo, levando com eles uma joia valiosíssima do museu, que carrega uma maldição. Werner Pfenning é um órfão alemão com um fascínio por rádios, talento que não passou despercebido à temida escola militar da Juventude Hitleriana. Seguindo o exército alemão por uma Europa em guerra, Werner chega a Saint-Malo na véspera do Dia D, onde, inevitavelmente, o seu destino se cruza com o de Marie-Laure, numa comovente combinação de amizade, inocência e humanidade num tempo de ódio e de trevas.

Marie-Laure vive con su padre en París, cerca del Museo de Historia Natural, donde él trabaja como responsable de sus mil cerraduras. Cuando, siendo muy niña, Marie-Laure se queda ciega, su padre le construye una perfecta miniatura de su barrio para que pueda memorizarla gracias al tacto y encontrar el camino a casa. A sus doce años, los nazis ocupan París y padre e hija tienen que huir a la ciudad amurallada de Saint-Malo. Con ellos se llevan la que podría ser la más preciada y peligrosa joya del museo. En una ciudad minera de Alemania, el joven huérfano Werner crece junto a su hermana pequeña, cautivado por una rudimentaria radio que ambos encuentran. Werner se convierte en un experto en construir y reparar estos aparatos cruciales para los nuevos tiempos, un talento que no pasa desapercibido a las Juventudes Hitlerianas. Siguiendo al ejército alemán, Werner deberá atravesar el corazón en guerra de Europa. Hasta que en la última noche antes de la liberación de Saint-Malo los caminos de Werner y Marie-Laure por fin se crucen. Y sus vidas cambien para siempre.

Costantinopoli, 1453. Sulla città sotto assedio si abbatte la violenza dell'esercito ottomano. All'interno delle mura, la dodicenne Anna abita in una casa di ricamatrici, trabocca di curiosità e, da quando ha trovato l'antico libro greco che racconta di Ètone, legge alla sorella malata le avventure dell'umile pastore dell'Arcadia che sogna di trasformarsi in un uccello per raggiungere un'utopica città nel cielo. Secoli dopo, in una biblioteca nell'Idaho dei nostri giorni, l'anziano Zeno placa i suoi fantasmi allestendo con cinque bimbi delle elementari una trasposizione teatrale del mito di Ètone; ancora non sa che il diciassettenne Seymour, che parla con i gufi, sta mettendo a repentaglio le loro vite. Anche Konstance, in un futuro lontanissimo, legge. Non ha mai visto la Terra, ha quattordici anni e da sempre è in viaggio su un'astronave, con altre ottantacinque persone, alla ricerca di un pianeta extrasolare su cui vivere. Mentre sfreccia in un vuoto freddo e silenzioso, davanti a sé ha un rompicapo: più di cento ritagli di carta con sopra delle parole. Costantinopoli, 20 febbraio 2020, Ètone... Tre piani temporali, tre orbite a distanze diverse da un comune centro di gravità. Su ciascun piano, dei tenaci sognatori; il centro che li tiene legati a sé e ne determina le traiettorie è un libro eterno, modello di utopia e immaginazione. Intorno a questo oggetto misterioso Anthony Doerr costruisce un romanzo torrenziale, un omaggio al potere delle storie e dei libri che le contengono, irriducibile testimonianza del passaggio dell'uomo sulla Terra.

From the author of the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome. Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Prize, one of the most prestigious awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and with it a stipend and a writing studio in Rome for a year. Doerr learned of the award the day he and his wife returned from the hospital with newborn twins. Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr's varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats — the chroniclers of Rome who came before him—and visits the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of a dying Pope John Paul II and takes...

Marie-Laure mieszka w Paryżu tuż przy Muzeum Historii Naturalnej, w którym pracuje jej ojciec. Kiedy dziewczynka kończy 6 lat traci wzrok, tata buduje dla niej wierną makietę miasta, by mogła się swobodnie poruszać w sąsiedztwie i zawsze znaleźć bezpieczną drogę do domu. W wieku 12 lat Marie-Laure wraz z ojcem uciekają z okupowanego przez nazistów Paryża do Saint-Malo, i zamieszkują w domu nad brzegiem morza. Werner Pfennig, wychowanek domu dziecka dorasta z młodszą siostrą w Zagłębiu Ruhry. Podczas jednej z zabaw znajduje radio, wkrótce staje się ekspertem w budowaniu i naprawianiu radioodbiorników. Dzięki swoim umiejętnościom zostaje wcielony do Wehrmachtu, gdzie służy w elitarnej grupie żołnierzy zajmującej się namierzaniem wrogich transmisji radiowych. Po powrocie z frontu wschodniego trafia do Saint-Malo w Bretanii, gdzie w sierpniu 1944 roku, podczas oblężenia miasta przez wojska amerykańskie, spotyka przypadkowo Marie-Laure i ratuje jej życie... Tak zaczyna się poruszająca historia zakazanej miłości dwojga ludzi, która najpierw zachwyciła Amerykanów, a wkrótce cały świat.