DOERR, ANTHONY
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
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.'
For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth.
In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of
Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
Anthony Doerr es autor de los libros de relatos Memory Wall y The Shell Collector, las memorias Four Seasons in Rome y las novelas Sobre Grace (Suma de Letras, 2016) y La luz que no puedes ver (Suma de Letras, 2015). Esta última ha sido finalista del National Book Award y ganadora del Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2015, y se ha convertido en un bestseller en todo el mundo, consiguiendo extraordinarias críticas. Las obras de Doerr han logrado numerosos premios más, entre ellos cuatro O. Henry Prizes, el Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, el Rome Prize, el New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, el National Magazine Award for Fiction, tres Pushcart Prizes, dos Pacific Northwest Book Awards, tres Ohioana Book Awards, el 2010 Story Prize, considerado el más prestigioso premio de Estados Unidos para un libro de relatos, y el Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, el mayor premio del mundo concedido a un único relato. En 2007, la revista literaria británica Granta incluyó a Doerr en su lista de «Los 21 mejores novelistas estadounidenses». Vive en Boise, Idaho, con su mujer y sus dos hijos.