Anthony Doerr Libri

A sei anni Marie-Laure scopre di essere destinata alla cecità per il resto della vita. Quando ne compie dodici i nazisti occupano la sua Parigi, costringendola a scappare col padre a Saint-Malo, nella casa sul mare del prozio. Lontano, in un orfanotrofio della Germania nazista, anche Werner vive la sua oscurità. Ma quando scopre di avere un talento naturale nel costruire e riparare lo strumento di guerra più strategico, la radio, si apre per lui un nuovo futuro: riesce ad accedere all’accademia della Gioventù hitleriana per poi partire in missione a localizzare i partigiani. Due mesi dopo il D-Day che ha liberato la Francia, ma non ancora la cittadina fortificata di Saint-Malo, i destini opposti di Werner e Marie-Laure convergono e si sfiorano, illuminando di una luce nuova le loro esistenze. Lirico, potente, malinconico, un romanzo sulla follia della guerra e le conseguenze del destino.

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Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril.

The author describes the year he spent in Rome after winning the Rome Prize, including his adventures around the city, life in a foreign but welcoming country, and parenthood as it applies to his newborn twins

In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring 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 their respective landscapes.

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Set on four continents, stories about memory.

Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach. Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees. He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out!