Anthony Doerr

A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.

A Novel

All the Light We Cannot See

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 a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril. An ancient text—the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky—provides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters. Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we’re gone. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Explores the variety of the human condition in a collection of short stories about love, relationships, grief, and hardship.

Stories

The Shell Collector

Meg Wolitzer

Jonathan Lethem

Dave Eggers

William Finnegan

Neil Gaiman

Salman Rushdie

Lauren Groff

Marlon James

Andrew Sean Greer

Ann Patchett

Brit Bennett

Yaa Gyasi

Sergio De La Pava

Aleksandar Hemon

George Saunders

Rabih Alameddine

Jesmyn Ward

Michael Cunningham

Jennifer Egan

Louise Erdrich

Morgan Parker

Jacqueline Woodson

Steven Okazaki

Geraldine Brooks

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Scott Turow

Timothy Egan

Victor Lavalle

Moses Sumney

Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Hector Tobar

Li Yiyun

Elizabeth Strout

C.J. Anders

Brenda J. Childs

David Handler

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring 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 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.

Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Fight of the Century

Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy, learning about human frailty and the importance of everyday miracles along the way. By the author of The Shell Collector. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

About Grace

From an award-winning and extraordinarily eloquent author whose "prose dazzles" (The New York Times Book Review) comes a second stunning collection. 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.

Memory Wall

رواية

كل الضوء الذي لا يمكننا رؤيته

On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Four Seasons in Rome

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.

Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

La luz que no puedes ver

Constantinople, 1453: Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world, and reads it to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Lakeport, Idaho, 2020: Seymour, an activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. The future: On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance, alone in a vault with access to all the information in the world, knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. All are dreamers, misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. -- adapted from publisher info

Alles Licht, das wir nicht sehen

Toda a Luz Que Não Podemos Ver: o grande vencedor do Prémio Pulitzer 2015. Marie-Laure é uma jovem cega que vive com o pai, o encarregado das chaves do Museu Nacional de História Natural em Paris. Quando as tropas de Hitler ocupam a França, pai e filha refugiam-se na cidade fortificada de Saint-Malo, levando com eles uma joia valiosíssima do museu, que carrega uma maldição. Werner Pfenning é um órfão alemão com um fascínio por rádios, talento que não passou despercebido à temida escola militar da Juventude Hitleriana. Seguindo o exército alemão por uma Europa em guerra, Werner chega a Saint-Malo na véspera do Dia D, onde, inevitavelmente, o seu destino se cruza com o de Marie-Laure, numa comovente combinação de amizade, inocência e humanidade num tempo de ódio e de trevas. Distinções: - Um dos melhores livros do ano, segundo a Amazon.com - Finalista do National Book Award 2014 - Um dos 10 melhores livros do ano, segundo o New York Times Book Review - Melhor livro de 2014 segundo a Barnes and Noble,Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Guardian e Kirkus Review.

Toda a Luz Que Não Podemos Ver

Heidi Pitlor

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019.

The Best American Short Stories 2019

Göremedigimiz Tüm Isiklar

Pulitzerpriset, Carnegie-medalj, ABIA-vinnare och över 100 000 femstjärniga läsaromdömen. Kritiker och läsare står enade: Ljuset vi inte ser är en mycket speciell bok! Den franska flickan Marie-Laure har nyligen blivit blind och kan bara tolka krigets fasor genom ljud, dofter och beröring. I Tyskland drömmer barnhemspojken Werner om att bli radiotekniker, men kan bara undslippa ett hårt liv i kolgruvan genom Hitlerjugend. När Marie-Laure flyr det ockuperade Paris och Werner skickas på ett hemligt uppdrag förenas deras öden i Saint-Malo en stad som kommer att totalförstöras av kriget. Ljuset vi inte ser är en gripande historia om människor som, mot alla odds, kämpar för att överleva. En fängslande berättelse om den grymhet som en gång slog klorna i Europa och om den godhet som göms i djupet av våra hjärtan. "Oerhört vackert berättad." Östgöta Corren "Det här en bok att leva i. Som gjord för en lång resa." Ingalill Mosander, Go'kväll "Ett mästerverk! En fängslande berättelse som aldrig släpper taget." Tidningen Allas "En berättelse med stort b för den som vill låta sig svepas bort ger hopp om ljus även i de mörkaste av tider." Hufvudstadsbladet "Texterna är som poesi, ändå bland det mest lättillgängliga jag läst. Jag bara läste och läste och plötsligt var boken slut. Ändå känns det som att jag tar med mig något riktigt stort från den." Alexander Schulman "Angelägen inte bara för sin skildring av hur människor i onda tider kan framstå som trovärdiga också i all sin osannolika godhet, utan också för den tidsatmosfär författaren fångat med såväl sakkunskap som detaljrikedom." Bibliotekstjänst "Magnifik!" The Guardian (UK) "Ett mästerverk." Library Journal "Överraskande vågad." The Boston Globe "En bok att leva i ... att aldrig vilja släppa." Booklist "Fängslande berättelse, vackert språk." Washington Post "Underbar ... En förvånansvärt kärleksfull roman." Seattle Times "Anthony Doerr tar språket bortom dödlighetens gräns." Vanity Fair "En stor vacker saga ... Ambitiös och majestätisk." Los Angeles Times "Bedövande vacker och oemotståndligt upplyftande." Entertainment Weekly

Ljuset vi inte ser

Door de Tweede Wereldoorlog en D-Day raken de levens van een blind Frans meisje en een jonge Duitse militair in St. Malo met elkaar verbonden.

een blind meisje te midden van het geweld van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Als je het licht niet kunt zien / druk 1

*COMING IN NOVEMBER AS A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book 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 with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. 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, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Tutta la luce che non vediamo

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