Bøger af Anthony Doerr

Vinder af Pulitzer-prisen 2015Marie-Laure LeBlanc mister som seksårig synet. Hendes far, låsesmeden på det naturhistoriske museum i Paris, bygger en perfekt miniaturemodel af deres kvarter til hende, så hun kan lære at finde vej hjem. Men da Paris invaderes af tyskerne under anden verdenskrig, må far og datter flygte.Med sig har de en uvurderlig hemmelighed.Den forældreløse Werner Pfennigs skæbne er de tyske kulminer, hvor hans far mistede livet. Men da han en dag finder en ødelagt radio, fyldes verden pludselig med muligheder. Hans evner vinder ham en plads på et eliteakademi for Hitlerjugend, men hvor store bliver omkostningerne, når Werner tvinges til at forfølge sine ambitioner?Langt væk i den ældgamle fæstningsby Saint-Malo lytter en ensom mand med granatchok til en for længst forsvundet stemme. Han går på opdagelse inye verdner uden nogensinde at forlade sit hus, men alligevel får hans eventyr alvorlige konsekvenser.I et Europa opslugt af krig kolliderer tilværelser uforudsigeligt. ALTDET LYS VI IKKE SER er et studie i, hvordan mennesker mod alle odds forsøger at finde ud af, hvad der er rigtigt og godt. En medrivende historie om mod og tvivl, en bittersød fortælling om kærlighedens væsen.Ros til ALT DET LYS, VI IKKE SER:Nomineret til National Book AwardNummer to på Amazons liste over de hundrede bedste bøger i 2014Nummer et på New York Times' bestsellerlisteEn af de ti bedste bøger i 2014, New York Times Book ReviewEn af de ti bedste bøger i 2014, San Fransisco ChronicleEn af de ti bedste bøger i 2014, Entertainmet WeeklyEn af de ti bedste bøger i 2014, The Washinton PostEn af de ti bedste bøger i 2014, The GuardianEn af de ti bedste bøger i 2014, Kirkus Reviews"Noget af det smukkeste." - New York Times"Altomsluttende fortalt, smukt skrevet. hver eneste oplysning fylderhistorien med vigtighed, indtil plottets puslespil til sidst er lagt ogafslører den skat, der gemmer sig deri." - Washington Post"En dybt rørende, dristig, hjerteknusende, underligt glædesfyldt roman."- Seattle Times"En bog man flytter ind i, lærer noget af, og med sorg tager afsked med,når sidste side er læst." - Booklist"En meditation over skæbnen, den frie vilje og over hvordan småbeslutninger kan have afgørende konsekvenser." - The New YorkerAnthony Doerr er født og opvokset i Ohio, hvor han stadig bor med sinkone og to sønner. Han har skrevet flere romaner, senest ALT DET LYS, VIIKKE SER, som skulle vise sig at blive hans store gennembrud.

Fra den Pulitzer-prisvindende forfatter bag Alt det lys vi ikke ser, en af de mest anerkendte og bedst sælgende bøger i nyere tid, kommer nu en triumf af fantasi: En skyhøj roman om børn, der træder ind i de voksnes rækker i en ødelagt verden.I det femtende århundredes Konstantinopel vokser forældreløse Anna op i et hus befolket af kvinder, der alle ernærer sig ved at brodere kåber til byens præster. Da Anna ved et tilfælde får fingre i et antikt manuskript, fortrylles hun af fortællingen om Aithon, drengen der drømmer om at flyve op til Byen i skyerne. Men Konstantinopel er under fjendtligt angreb udefra, og Annas søster er dødeligt syg. På den anden side af de høje bymure står bondedrengen Omeir, milevidt hjemmefra. Han er tvunget i krig af den invaderende hær, og ved Konstantinopels mure krydses hans veje med Annas. Fem hundrede år senere, på et bibliotek i Idaho, er den tidligere krigsfange Zeno i færd med at instruere fem skolebørn i et skuespil baseret på Aithons historie. Blandt hyldernes mange bøger har den forstyrrede klimaaktivist Seymour plantet en bombe. Og i en ikke så fjern fremtid skriver Konstance fortællingen om Aithon ned fra erindringen, som hendes far fortalte hende den. Hun har aldrig set Jorden, kun hørt historier om den, om bord på fartøjet Argos. BYEN I SKYERNE er en episk roman om kærlighed, længsel og omsorg for Jorden og de sjæle, der befolker den. Med virtuos fornemmelse for komposition væver Anthony Doerr skæbnetrådene sammen til et varmt sanset portræt af menneskelivets mest hjertegribende aspekter.

WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTIONA 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 IIMarie-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 his way out of obscurity is built on suffering.At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in.Doerr's combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electric. As Europe is engulfed by war and lives collide unpredictably, 'All The Light We Cannot See' is a captivating and devastating elegy for innocence.

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.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE 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.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-Laures reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museums 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-Laures converge. Doerrs 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, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer whose sentences never fail to thrill (Los Angeles Times).

The showstopping debut from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEEA 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. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandesitne act of burying the hearts of beached whales.In The Shell Collector Antony Doerr illuminates both the riotous dangers of the natural world and the rocky terrain of the human heart.

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About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Light We Cannot See.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. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach.Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees.He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out...

Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is 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 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 teenaged orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. 'Village 113' is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seedkeeper 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.The stories in Memory Wall show us how we figure the world, and show Anthony Doerr to be one of the masters of the form.

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. 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 neighbourhood, whose clamour 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 account of the alchemy of writers.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

La primera novela del autor del best seller internacional La luz que no puedes ver, Premio Pulitzer 2015. Desde su niñez en Alaska, David Winkler ha vivido obsesionado por la nieve. Además, David tiene un don: a veces puede ver cosas antes de que ocurran. Sus premoniciones le permiten saber que un vecino será atropellado por el autobús o que se enamorará de una mujer en un supermercado. Pero cuando David sueña que su hija se va a ahogar en una inundación sin que él pueda salvarla, toda su vida se desmorona. Huir de su familia, de su casa y de su propio futuro parece el único modo de negar el sueño que lo atormenta. Solo, sin medios y sin saber si su hija ha sobrevivido o si su mujer ha conseguido perdonarlo, David tendrá que comenzar una nueva vida. Hasta el día en que deba enfrentarse a la decisión de buscar a las personas que dejó atrás. Haciendo uso de una prosa luminosa, Doerr ha creado una inolvidable novela sobre el poder del amor y la belleza de la naturaleza, y sobre los pequeños milagros que transforman nuestras vidas. Reseñas: Decir que este libro es bonito, extraordinario o emotivo es como no decir nada. En comparación con la perfecta prosa de Anthony Doerr cualquier descripción de esta novela parece trivial. Tan solo compre Sobre Grace, llame al trabajo para decir que está enfermo, apague el móvil y compruebe usted mismo lo buena que puede llegar a ser la ficción actual.The Guardian Una fantástica hazaña literaria. Casi perfecta.The Independent Doerr escribe con tierna belleza sobre la fragilidad humana y sobre el poder de la naturaleza hilando metáforas en un tejido literario deslumbrante. No recuerdo ninguna otra novela que me embelesara de la misma manera.London Evening Standard Esta fascinante novela es totalmente perfecta# Absolutamente inolvidable.Seattle Post-Intelligencer Una de esas novelas que se abren camino hasta introducirse en tus mismos sueños.Newsday Anthony Doerr ha escrito una historia hermosa y cautivadora. Una novela que logra ser inteligente sin ser pretenciosa, que se deleita con el simbolismo sin ser pesada en absoluto y que anima sin ser sentimental.The Daily Republic Anthony Doerr recorre de nuevo territorio conocido: el embeleso por la naturaleza expresado mediante una prosa magistral.The New York Times ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The first novel by the author of the acclaimed 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.

"Los ójvenes éhroes de esta novela intentan entender el mundo que les rodea: Anna y Omeir se encuentran en lados opuestos de las magínficas murallas de Constantinopla durante el asedio de la ciudad en 1453; el idealista Seymour esát inmerso en un atentado contra una biblioteca en el Idaho de la actualidad; y Konstance viaja a bordo de una nave espacial que se dirige a un nuevo planeta en el futuro. Todos ellos son sñoadores que encuentran fuerza y esperanza en la adversidad... y todos esátn unidos por un libro escrito en la antigua Grecia que narra un viaje excepcional"--Provided by publisher.

For use in schools and libraries only. A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.

Set on four continents, stories about memory.

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 story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope--and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness--with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we're gone. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a Utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna's will cross.

A blind French girl and a German boy's paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

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.

#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. "As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong," writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year's best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America's rich rural culture to its online teen culture to the fragile nature of the therapist-client relationship. This astonishing collection brings together the realistic and dystopic, humor and terror. For Doerr, "with every new artist, we simultaneously refine and expand our understanding of what the form can be." The Best American Short Stories 2019 includes Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Jamel Brinkley, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ursula K. Le Guin, Manuel Muñoz, Sigrid Nunez, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Jim Shepherd, Weike Wang, and others.

Anthony Doerrs fortællinger fra samlingen MINDEVÆGGEN handler om hukommelsen, den skrøbelige tråd, der bringer sammenhæng i tilværelsen og forbinder os med vores medmennesker. Historierne minder os om livets storslåethed, rigdom og mange facetter. Her udgiver Politikens Forlag ganske eksklusivt to af novellerne som digitale singler.I historien En anden verden beskriver Doerrs fortæller et jødisk børnehjem under anden verdenskrig, hvor en række børn deporteres til koncentrationslejre. Hvem er børnene? Hvor ender de? Og hvordan husker de hinanden?“Ambitiøse, vidtrækkende, iderige og bevægende historier.” – Sunday Times

Anthony Doerrs fortællinger fra samlingen MINDEVÆGGEN handler om hukommelsen, den skrøbelige tråd, der bringer sammenhæng i tilværelsen og forbinder os med vores medmennesker. Historierne minder os om livets storslåethed, rigdom og mange facetter. Her udgiver Politikens forlag ganske eksklusivt to af novellerne som digitale singler.I titelnovellen Mindevæggen besøger demente Alma Konachek sin egen fortid igennem en ny teknologi, der kan uddrage hendes minder fra hukommelsens tåger. Men der er andre end Alma, der leder efter svar i hendes minder.“Ambitiøse, vidtrækkende, iderige og bevægende historier.” – Sunday Times