Anthony Doerr écrit avec une sensibilité exquise pour les détails et la beauté du monde, même dans ses moments les plus sombres. Sa prose explore des connexions humaines complexes, examinant des expériences profondes avec un accent particulier sur l'empathie et les manières dont nous nous connectons à travers de vastes distances. Les lecteurs sont attirés par sa capacité à créer des images vives et des personnages qui résonnent longtemps après la dernière page. Son œuvre témoigne de la résilience de l'esprit humain et de la recherche de la lumière dans des circonstances qui, autrement, pourraient mener au désespoir.
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Marie-Laure doit se réfugier chez un oncle à Saint-Malo avec son père. Celui-ci, employé au Museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, est chargé d'un diamant qui ne doit pas être volé par les Allemands. En Allemagne, le jeune Werner est enrôlé dans les Jeunesses hitlériennes avant d'entrer à la Wehrmacht. En 1944, leurs destins se croisent. Prix Pulitzer 2015.
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
Follows four young dreamers and outcasts through time and space, from 1453 Constantinople to the future, as they discover resourcefulness and hope amidst peril.
On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
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
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.
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Set on four continents, stories about memory.
Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach. Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees. He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out!
<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>).
