Anthony Doerr
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful 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. 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,...
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"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,...
3) ABOUT GRACE
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Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy.
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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...
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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...
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Suma
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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Los jóvenes héroes de esta novela intentan entender el mundo que les rodea: Anna y Omeir se encuentran en lados opuestos de las magníficas murallas de Constantinopla durante el asedio de la ciudad en 1453; el idealista Seymour está 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 soñadores que encuentran fuerza...
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Polish
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"Niewidoma Marie-Laure mieszka w Paryżu w okolicy Muzeum Historii Naturalnej, gdzie pracuje jej ojciec. Ma dwanaście lat, kiedy naziści okupują jej miasto i wraz z ojcem musi uciekać do Saint-Malo w Bretanii. Traf chce, że mają przy sobie pewien klejnot, jeden z najcenniejszych zabytków muzeum. W górniczym miasteczku w Niemczech osierocony chłopiec, Werner Pfenning, oczarowany słucha radia, które dostarcza mu wiedzy na temat świata i...
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskie
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2022.
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Polish
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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...
11) Sobre Grace
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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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 happe: 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...
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Zhong xin chu ban she
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2015.
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中文（繁體）
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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...
13) Un año en Roma
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Bestseller) volume 1161/2
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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"El día en que nacieron sus dos hijos, Anthony Doerr supo también que había sido galardonado con el Premio Roma, una de las más prestigiosas distinciones otorgadas por la Academia Americana de las Artes y las Letras. Gracias a su dotación, Doerr pudo vivir en la capital italiana con su recién acrecida familia durante un año. A lo largo de este tiempo, Doerr leyó a Plinio, a Dante, a Keats; visitó las calles y plazas más bellas del mundo,...