A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel 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 within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks i...

When everything is lost, it\"s our stories that survive How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds....

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome… ‘Four Seasons in Rome’ charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerr\"s varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world, and the first year of parenthood....

A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal\"s mind by touching its freshly dead body....

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....

From the author of All The Light We Cannot See, a collection of stories about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. In the luminous 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....

El dia en que nacieron sus dos hijos, Anthony Doerr supo tambien que habia sido galardonado con el Premio Roma, una de las mas prestigiosas distinciones otorgadas por la Academia Americana de las Artes y las Letras. Gracias a su dotacion, Doerr pudo vivir en la capital italiana con su recien acrecida familia durante un ano....

Marie-Laure vive con su padre en Paris, cerca del Museo de Historia Natural, donde el trabaja como responsable de sus mil cerraduras. Cuando, siendo muy nina, 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 beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel 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 Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.......

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, 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....

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer prize for fiction national book award finalist New York Times bestseller winner of the Carnegie medal for fiction....

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....

Book Description Anthony Doerr?s short-story collection The Shell Collector was praised by the Los Angeles Times as being \"as close to faultless as any writer?young or vastly experienced?could wish for....