Anthony Doerr

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

Jännittävä. Koskettava. Ahmittava. Suuri lukuromaani sodasta, rakkaudesta ja radioaalloista sekä mittaamattoman arvokkaasta jalokivestä, joka määrää kahden erikoisen lapsen kohtalon. Saksalainen Werner asuu orpokodissa ja kuuntelee öisin ranskankielisiä radiolähetyksiä. Sokea Marie-Laure elää isänsä, Pariisin luonnontieteellisen museon lukkosepän, kanssa. Sota syttyy. Werner sijoitetaan radiolähetyksiä vakoilevaan SS-yksikköön, ja Marie-Laure pakenee Bretagneen, Saint-Malon kaupunkiin. Mukanaan hänellä on salaperäinen, mahdollisesti kirottu, jalokivi, Vuosi vuodelta Wernerin ja Marie-Lauren polut lähenevät toisiaan. Mitä tapahtuu kun heidän tiensä viimein risteävät?

David Winkler drømmer begivenheder, før de sker. Detaljerede og uafrystelige drømme: En mand, der bliver kørt ihjel af en bus; hvordan han møder sit livs kærlighed. Ting, der siden udspiller sig i virkeligheden. Da David drømmer, at han er ude af stand til at redde sin spæde datter fra druknedøden, knuses hans tilværelse. Han flygter, fjerner det eneste element i det ulykkelige scenarie, han er herre over – sig selv. På en caribisk ø holder han op med at flygte. Alene, ulykkelig og usikker på, om hans datter har overlevet, og om hans elskede kan tilgive ham, drømmer han endnu en skæbnedrøm. Nu kan han vælge, om den skal blive hans vej tilbage til de mennesker, han har ladt bag sig. Noget om Grace handler om de små mirakler, der på et sekund afgør vores skæbner, om sorg og savn, men også om kærlighed og omsorg. ”En formidabel litterær præstation.” THE INDEPENDENT “En storslået roman, hvor naturen beskrives i en prosa, der synger fra siderne. THE NEW YORK TIMES ”Meld dig syg, sluk mobilen og oplev, hvor god litteratur, der skrives i dag.” THE GUARDIAN Om forfatteren:Anthony Doerr er født og opvokset i Ohio, hvor han stadig bor med sin kone og to sønner. Han har skrevet flere romaner, senest ALT DET LYS, VI IKKE SER, som skulle vise sig at blive hans store gennembrud.

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.

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION

WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION 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 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").

*NOW 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).

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 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.

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.

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 Romeâ?¦

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.

Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr.

The stories in this volume explore the human dilemma in all its manifestations: longing, grief, indecision, heartbreak and slow, slow recuperation. It takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival.