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A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION PICK OF 2021 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA's FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021

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

Die sechs Stories dieses Bandes, angesiedelt auf drei verschiedenen Kontinenten, handeln von Erinnerung und Liebe. In jedem Augenblick, sagt Anthony Doerr, verschwinden überall auf der Welt unzählige Erinnerungen, dabei sind sie es, die unserem Leben Sinn und Zusammenhang verleihen. Gleichzeitig erforschen Kinder neues, unbekanntes Terrain, formen frische Erinnerungen, erfinden die Welt neu. In „Die Memel“ zieht ein verwaistes Mädchen zu ihrem Großvater nach Litauen und entdeckt eine Welt, in der Mythen real werden. In „Dorf 113“ geht es um den Bau des Drei-Schluchten-Damms und um die Samenhüterin, die auch die Geschichte des Dorfes bewahrt, das bald überflutet werden wird. In „Nachwelt“, einer erschütternden, unvergesslichen Geschichte, wird eine Frau, als einzige Überlebende aus einem jüdischen Waisenhaus in Hamburg dem Holocaust entronnen, von Visionen ihrer Kindheitsfreundinnen heimgesucht, findet aber Trost in der zärtlichen Fürsorge ihres Enkelsohns. „Die Tiefe“, angesiedelt im Detroit der dreißiger Jahre, erzählt die melancholische Liebesgeschichte von Tom und Ruby, die Tom wegen seiner Herzschwäche in Lebensgefahr bringt. Doerr erzählt von fast mystischen Momenten, in denen die Zeit aufgehoben scheint und die Toten anwesend sind. Die Welt wird transparent, wenn dieser große Erzähler sie und ihre Bewohner beschreibt.

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.

Set on four continents, stories about memory.

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

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.

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.