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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is the author of four books: Memory Wall, The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. His fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. His work has been translated into eleven languages and has won awards including the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Ohioana Book Award twice.His books have twice been a New York Times Notable Book, an American Library Association Book of the Year, and made lots of other year end "Best Of" lists. In 2007, the British literary magazine Granta placed Doerr on its list of 21 Best Young American novelists.He teaches now and then in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. His book reviews have appeared in the New York Times and Der Spiegel, and he writes a regular column on science books for the Boston Globe.

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Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

Anthony Doerr

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.

Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross.

Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.

Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Anthony Doerr

*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award Finalist*

From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious 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.

*Soon to be a Netflix limited series from the producers of Stranger Things*

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” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

The Shell Collector: Stories

Anthony Doerr

The "perilously beautiful" (Boston Globe) first story collection by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All The Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land.

The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr’s 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—conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of the characters in these stories contend with hardships; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the ravishing universe outside themselves.

About Grace: A Novel

Anthony Doerr

The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the 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.

Memory Wall: Stories

Anthony Doerr

In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review).

Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world.

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 teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper 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.

Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Anthony Doerr

From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, 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 his twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus. He and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of the neighborhood, whose clamor of stories and idiosyncratic child-rearing advice is as compelling as the city itself.

This intimate and revelatory book is a celebration of Rome, a wondrous look at new parenthood, and a fascinating story of a writer's craft—the process by which he transforms what he sees and experiences into sentences.

La luz que no puedes ver

Anthony Doerr

Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2015.

Un corazón puro puede brillar aun en la noche más oscura. Y en el más terrible de los tiempos.

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, untalento 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.

N.o 1 en las listas de bestsellers en Estados Unidos.
Finalista del National Book Award.
Mejor novela de 2014 en iTunes.
Entre los mejores diez libros del año para The New York Times.
No. 1 de ficción histórica de 2014 en Goodreads.
Premio 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal de novela de la American Library Association.

«Estoy leyendo un libro maravilloso. Solo llevo la mitad así que no puedo hablar hasta el final, pero es un verdadero placer. Quería contároslo. Estilo impecable, personajes maravillosos y una vívida recreación de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. ¿Qué más se puede pedir?... ¿Y no es preciosa la cubierta?»
Kate Morton

Reseñas:
«La luz que no puedes ver es un clásico instantáneo, y, además, para todos los públicos. Quien no se deje arrastrar por su trama lo hará por la emoción, y habrá quien quede embobado, simplemente, ante el lirismo de la prosa de Doerr. Una experiencia memorable.»
Juan Manuel Freire, El Dominical

«Uno de los puntos fuertes de esta novela es situar al lector en la época como alguien de la época, sin todo lo que hoy sabemos y no podemos olvidar.»
Inocencia Newman, Qué Leer

«Inolvidablemente hermoso.»
The New York Times

«No creo que este año vaya a leer un libro mejor que La luz que no puedes ver.»
Washington Post

«Una hermosa, valiente, desgarradora y extrañamente alegre novela.»
The Seattle Times

«Incandescente... Una luminosa obra de lucha y trascendencia.»
The Oprah magazine

«Magnífica.»
The Guardian

«Una obra de arte.»
BBC

El rastreador de conchas

Anthony Doerr

El rastreador de conchas reúne ocho asombroso relatos inéditos del autor de La luz que no puedes ver, que consiguen llevarnos alrededor del mundo... y al interior de nuestros corazones.

El primer libro de Anthony Doerr compendia ocho relatos a través de los cuales el autor transporta al lector de la costa africana a los frondosos bosques de pinos de Montana y a los húmedos páramos de Lapland, trazando un vasto itinerario geográfico, pero también emocional. Doerr explora la condición humana en todas sus formas -metamorfosis, dolor, relaciones rotas, corazones que lentamente sienten cómo sus heridas cicatrizan-, evocando a la naturaleza en sus dos vertientes: la de la hermosa abundancia y la del temible poder que alberga y del que hace gala en ocasiones.

Los personajes que deambulan por estas páginas se enfrentan a adversidades que en todo momento parece que los van a superar, buscan su lugar en este mundo en constante devenir... y se encuentran unidos por la inquebrantable amarradura al deslumbrante universo que los rodea.

Reseñas:
«Valientemente hermoso.»
The Boston Globe

«Doerr es un escritor talentoso y atrevido.»
Elizabeth Gilbert

«Ocho historias que ningún escritor puede leer sin sentir envidia. Posee la sabiduría y la mirada lúcida de D.H. Lawrence, Tolstói, Hemingway.»
The Philadelphia Inquirer

Sobre Grace

Anthony Doerr

La primera novela del autor del best seller internacional La luz que no puedes ver, Premio Pulitzer 2015.

Desde su niñez en Alaska, David Winkler ha vivido obsesionado por la nieve. Además, David tiene un don: a veces puede ver cosas antes de que ocurran. Sus premoniciones le permiten saber que un vecino será atropellado por el autobús o que se enamorará de una mujer en un supermercado. Pero cuando David sueña que su hija se va a ahogar en una inundación sin que él pueda salvarla, toda su vida se desmorona. Huir de su familia, de su casa y de su propio futuro parece el único modo de negar el sueño que lo atormenta.

Solo, sin medios y sin saber si su hija ha sobrevivido o si su mujer ha conseguido perdonarlo, David tendrá que comenzar una nueva vida. Hasta el día en que deba enfrentarse a la decisión de buscar a las personas que dejó atrás.

Haciendo uso de una prosa luminosa, Doerr ha creado una inolvidable novela sobre el poder del amor y la belleza de la naturaleza, y sobre los pequeños milagros que transforman nuestras vidas.

Reseñas:
«Anthony Doerr recorre de nuevo territorio conocido: el embeleso por la naturaleza expresado mediante una prosa magistral.»
The New York Times

«Decir que este libro es bonito, extraordinario o emotivo es como no decir nada. En comparación con la perfecta prosa de Anthony Doerr cualquier descripción de esta novela parece trivial. Tan solo compre Sobre Grace, llame al trabajo para decir que está enfermo, apague el móvil y compruebe usted mismo lo buena que puede llegar a ser la ficción actual.»
The Guardian

«Una fantástica hazaña literaria. Casi perfecta.»
The Independent

«Sobre Grace alcanza un nivel narrativo al alcance de muy pocos.»
Qué leer

Los blogueros opinan:
«Los personajes son muy humanos y creíbles. La forma de narrar está llena de emociones. Los cambios del tiempo tienen un papel fundamental en las decisiones que tome el protagonista y nos adentrarán en unas páginas cargadas de una magia apasionante.»
Web Los libros de Jade

«Si por algo destaca Anthony Doerr es por su maestría narrativa y en Sobre Grace no iba a pecar de ello. Con una prosa cuidada, magistral, que hipnotiza y que traslada al lector a este mundo o, mejor dicho, a cada una de las situaciones que recrea en la novela, describiendo a la perfección cada detalle, en especial la naturaleza y las sensaciones que rodean a los personajes.»
Blog Chronicle cover

«La verdad es que se trata de un libro mágico, sorprendente, con muchos giros argumentales y en el que nunca sabes qué pasará a continuación.»
Web Entérate de lo último

«¿Qué decir de la novela? Es asombrosa y elocuente, tan buena como La luz que no puedes ver.»
Blog La da Chavechny

«Un gran comienzo el de esta novela, mostrándonos a un hombre enamorado a partir de un sueño y que consigue salirse con la suya y conquistar a su amada.»
Blog Búho entre libros

«Anthony Doerr me ha conquistado, por lo que me veo en la obligación de recomendar su libro»
Blog Rustis y Mustis leen

El muro de la memoria

Anthony Doerr

El muro de la memoria reúne cuatro historias inéditas del autor de La luz que no puedes ver, que nos hablan de la conmovedora fortuna de vivir en este mundo.

Cada hora, aquí y allá, un sinfín de recuerdos desaparecen para siempre. Y, al mismo tiempo, los niños, explorando lo que les es desconocido, rehacen el mundo de nuevo con la memoria, la fuente de sentido en nuestras vidas, el frágil hilo que nos conecta con nosotros y con los demás.

En «El muro de la memoria», un joven sudafricano halla en un secreto del pasado el poder de redimir una vida. En «Río Niemen», un adolescente huérfano se muda a Lituania para vivir con su abuelo y descubre un mundo en el que el mito se hace realidad. «El pueblo 113» nos lleva hasta la presa de las Tres Gargantas, en China, y el pueblo en ciernes del hundimiento. Finalmente, «El más allá» presenta a una mujer atormentada por el Holocausto del que escapó, y que solo encontrará consuelo en el afecto de su nieto.

Reseñas:
«Una extraordinariamente rica y matizada reflexión sobre la memoria, el tiempo y la pérdida. Doerr es un estilista exquisito.»
The Guardian

«Extraño y hermoso. Doerr escribe sobre grandes cuestiones, los imponderables, los mayores temores existenciales, y lo hace sin miedo.»
The New York Times

«Asombrosamente bueno.»
The Oregonian

«Un pequeño clásico de la literatura contemporánea.»
The National Post

«La voz de Doerr no tiene límites.»
The Millions

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