Most Popular Books by Anthony Doerr

A prize-winning young writer''s finely crafted and imaginative debut takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio in a fiercely beautiful language.

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.

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

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.

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.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Des côtes du Kenya aux banlieues de l''Ohio, des forêts du Montana à une petite ville de l''Idaho, Le nom des coquillages explore l''étroite frontière entre le monde naturel et celui des hommes. Avec un réel talent de conteur, Anthony Doerr capte l''essence du monde visible mais aussi les paysages intérieurs de ses personnages. Une écriture éblouissante et un talent poétique indéniable : à 28 ans, ce jeune écrivain fait une entrée remarquée sur la scène littéraire. Ce premier recueil de nouvelles, salué aux États-Unis par une presse unanime, nous laisse entendre une musique éternelle : la rude symphonie du monde vivant. " Anthony Doerr est un merveilleux écrivain. Ses nouvelles, tout en profondeur, nous font retrouver des endroits oubliés et découvrir de nouvelles contrées. Elles ne se contentent pas de témoigner de la beauté, elles aident à la créer. " Rick Bass

No dia em que Anthony Doerr e a esposa voltam da maternidade com seus gêmeos recém-nascidos, ele descobre que recebeu um prêmio da Academia Americana de Artes e Letras, o Rome Prize, que inclui ajuda de custo, um apartamento e um estúdio para escrever na Itália. Quatro estações em Roma nasceu das memórias do ano que o autor passou na cidade com a esposa e os filhos. Vindo do interior dos Estados Unidos, o estranhamento de Doerr com o novo país começa logo na chegada: a cozinha do apartamento não tem forno. As janelas não têm telas. Ao contrário do que ocorre nos Estados Unidos, as verduras e frutas são vendidas em feiras ao ar livre, e não em um supermercado. Para Doerr, Roma é um mistério: um outdoor de uma marca de roupas tremulando na fachada de uma igreja de quatrocentos anos, uma construção comum ao lado de uma obra-prima da arquitetura. Em meio a tudo isso, ele cuida dos filhos, lida com uma insônia que parece não ceder e tenta, sem muito sucesso, escrever um novo romance — Toda luz que não podemos ver, lançado sete anos mais tarde e que acabaria rendendo ao autor o Pulitzer de ficção. Quatro estações em Roma traz o texto primoroso e sensível que tornou Doerr celebrado no mundo inteiro, ao mesmo tempo um relato íntimo e uma celebração da Cidade Eterna. “Uma reflexão apaixonada sobre aprender a enxergar e celebrar tanto o que conhecemos quanto aquilo que nos é estranho.” Entertainment Weekly “Delicioso, divertido e cheio de cenas memoráveis. Não vá a Roma sem lê-lo.” Kirkus Reviews

Koskettava lukuromaani tarinoiden voimasta. Mielikuvituksen ja myötätunnon voitto! Pulitzer-palkitun kirjailijan sykähdyttävä kertomus toivoa ja tarinaansa etsivistä nuorista. Taivaanrannan taa punoo huikeaksi kokonaisuudeksi tarinat kolmesta nuoresta kolmena eri aikana, kolmessa eri paikassa: keskiaikaisessa Konstantinopolissa, nykypäivän Idahossa ja avaruuslennolla tulevaisuudessa. Heitä kaikkia yhdistää muinainen tarina unelmoinnin voimasta. Taivaanrannan taa on omistettu menneille, nykyisille ja tuleville kirjastonhoitajille. Se on kaunis ja armollinen matka kirjallisuuteen, maailmaan ja sydämiimme. Anthony Doerr on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, jonka toisen maailmansodan aikaiseen Ranskaan sijoittunut romaani Kaikki se valo mitä emme näe voitti Pulitzer-palkinnon ja ampaisi suoraan myyntilistojen kärkeen myös Suomessa. Doerr asuu Idahossa vaimonsa ja kahden poikansa kanssa.

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