Anthony Doerr

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 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 children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...

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.

#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. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

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"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 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...

"Marie-Laure mieszka wraz z ojcem w Paryżu. Gdy traci wzrok, uczy się poznawać świat przez słuch i dotyk, a ojciec podarowuje jej niezwykły miniaturowy model miasta. Kiedy hitlerowcy wkraczają do Paryża, dwunastoletnia Marie-Laure ucieka z ojcem do Saint-Malo na wybrzeżu Bretanii. Niebawem miasteczko staje się ostatnim niemieckim bastionem na kontynencie, zaciekle odpierającym bombowe ataki aliantów. Bezbronna niewidoma dziewczyna...

Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but...

Thoughtful and affirming, this collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone illuminates an experience that is rarely openly discussed.

For ten years, Herb and Imogene maintain careful contraception practices. So when they decide to discontinue birth control, they eagerly, jubilantly, await the spark of life. But weeks turn into months, and as the regularity of Imogene's period signals an end to something never begun, the weight of failure pushes Herb to the breaking point.

Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris and is blind by age six. Her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, so she can memorize it and navigate the real streets. When the Germans occupy Paris, they flee to Saint-Malo on the coast. In Germany, Werner grows up enchanted by a crude radio he finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, which wins him a place with the Hitler Youth. Werner travels throughout Europe, and finally...