DOERR ANTHONY

ΟΛΟ ΤΟ ΦΩΣ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΜΠΟΡΟΥΜΕ ΝΑ ΔΟΥΜΕ
Η Μαρί Λορ Λεμπλάν ζει με τον πατέρα της στο Παρίσι, σε απόσταση αναπνοής από το Μουσείο Φυσικής Ιστορίας, όπου εκείνος εργάζεται ως κλειθροποιός. Στα έξι της χρόνια τυφλώνεται κι ο πατέρας της φτιάχνει την τέλεια μινιατούρα της γειτονιάς τους για να της μάθει τον δρόμο για το σπίτι τους. Όταν εισβάλλουν οι Γερμανοί στη χώρα, τον Ιούνιο του 1940, πατέρας και κόρη φεύγουν για το Σαιν Μαλό, μεταφέροντας ένα επικίνδυνο μυστικό. Ο Βέρνερ Πφέννιχ είναι ένα ορφανό αγόρι από τη Γερμανία που προορίζεται να δουλέψει στο ίδιο ανθρακωρυχείο που σκοτώ...
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(P/B) ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
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 his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city ...
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(P/B) MEMORY WALL
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. In the luminous 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, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. ...
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(P/B) ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
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 his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city ...
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