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,...

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.

Vpervye na russkom - novejshij roman Entoni Dorra, avtora knigi «Ves' nevidimyj nam svet», udostoennoj Pulicerovskoj premii; kak i etot mezhdunarodnyj bestseller, «Ptichij gorod za oblakami» vklyuchen v short-list Nacional'noj knizhnoj premii SSHA. Roman vystroen podobno matreshke (ili «Oblachnomu atlasu» Devida Mitchella): zdes' hitroumno perekreshchivayutsya zhizni i sud'by Anny i Omira, prebyvayushchih po raznye storony steny v osazhdennom...

The author describes the year he spent in Rome after winning the Rome Prize, including his adventures around the city, life in a foreign but welcoming country, and parenthood as it applies to his newborn twins.

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...

Set on four continents, stories about memory.

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...

"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,...

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