A remarkable collection of stories from a young American writer of huge potential: 'A show-stopping debut, as close to faultless as any writer could wish for' Los Angeles Times 'His fingers dug the shell up, he felt the sleek egg of its body, the toothy gap of its aperture. It was the most elegant thing he'd ever held. That's a mouse cowry, the doctor said. A lovely find. It has brown spots, and darker stripes at its base, like tiger stripes. You can't see it, can you? But he could. He'd never seen anything so clearly in his life.' In this assured, exquisite debut, Anthony Doerr takes readers...
A remarkable collection of stories from a young American writer of huge potential: 'A show-stopping debut, as close to faultless as any writer could w...
Anthony Doerr's brilliant new collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, and the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Now includes 'The Deep', which was awarded the 2011 Sunday Times Short Story Award.
Anthony Doerr's brilliant new collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, and the fragile thread that con...
Doerrs gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of MarieLaure, a blind girl who flees Paris during the Nazi occupation, and Werner, a German orphan boy who becomes a highly specialised tracker of the Resistance, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, that people try to be good to one another.
Doerrs gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of MarieLaure, a blind girl who flees P...
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
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION ...
From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr's gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hopeand a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land,...
From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our ...
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human exp...
