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,...

Set on four continents, stories about memory.

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...

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 it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter...

Bohaterowie Miasta w chmurach są marzycielami i outsiderami. Łączy ich jeden starożytny tekst: historia Aetona, który pragnie zostać ptakiem, by odlecieć do utopijnego miasta w niebiosach.Osierocona Anna i przeklęty chłopiec Omeir przebywają po przeciwnych stronach potężnych murów podczas oblężenia Konstantynopola w 1453 roku.Współczesne Idaho. Weteran wojenny, osiemdziesięcioparoletni Zeno próbuje uchronić bibliotekę przed wybuchem...

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.
On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman,...

Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2014 which were originally published in American periodicals.