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Stories
Scribner
July 2010
On Sale: July 13, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 1439182809
EAN: 9781439182802
Hardcover
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From an award-winning and extraordinarily eloquent author
whose "prose dazzles" (The New York Times Book Review) comes
a second stunning collection. Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are
about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our
lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and
to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an
infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time
children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them,
push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the
world. 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 teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to
live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which
myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry
Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the
seed keeper 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. Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of
life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of
sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the
breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's
language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are
unparalleled in fiction today.
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