Anthony Doerr Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

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

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.

Vom Autor des Bestsellers »Alles Licht, das wir nicht sehen«. 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. Doerr erzählt von fast mystischen Momenten, in denen die Zeit aufgehoben scheint und die Toten anwesend sind. Die Welt wird transparent, wenn dieser große und preisgekrönte Erzähler sie und ihre Bewohner beschreibt.

De jonge Marie-Laure is blind. Ze woont met haar vader in Parijs naast het natuurhistorisch museum waar hij werkt als curator. Als ze twaalf is bezetten de nazi's Parijs en vader en dochter vluchten naar het Bretonse Saint-Malo. Ze hebben de grootste en meest waardevolle schat van het museum meegenomen. In een mijnstadje in Duitsland groeit Werner Pfennig samen met zijn jongere zusje Jutta op in een weeshuis. Werner belandt bij de Hitlerjeugd en wordt vervolgens naar het front gestuurd. Via Rusland komt hij ten slotte in Saint-Malo terecht, waar zijn verhaal en dat van Marie-Laure samenkomen.

<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list</b> From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant <i>New York Times</i> 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. 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. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>) are dazzling. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, <i>All the Light We Cannot See</i> is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).

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.