Audiobooks by Anthony Doerr

‘Serious novels are rarely this fun’ The Times ‘A gift’ Guardian ‘Buoyant with humanity’ Daily Mail ‘Worth the seven year wait’ Stylist When everything is lost, it’s our stories that survive How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds. Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love. Idaho, 2020: An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that’s crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans? Unknown, Sometime in the Future: With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance. Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like it’s predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr’s new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.

Anthony Doerr (Author), Marin Ireland, Simon Jones (Narrator)

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All The Light We Cannot See

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 flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.

Anthony Doerr (Author), Julie Teal (Narrator)

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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Anthony Doerr, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, reads his 2007 memoir, Four Seasons in Rome-available on audio for the very first time!On the day Tony Doerr and his wife returned from the hospital with their newborn twins, he received a letter from the Academy of Arts and Letters informing him that he had won the prestigious Rome Prize, which provides a stipend, an apartment, and a writing studio at the beautiful American Academy for a year. Six months and a few Italian lessons later, they arrived in Rome. Insatiably curious, an avid reader, and an extraordinary eloquent observer of nature, Doerr sets out to discover Rome. He reads Pliny, Dante, Shelley and visits the churches and piazzas and ancient cisterns they describe. He reads the history of the papacy and attends the vigil as Pope John Paul II lies dying. He takes his twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus. And he and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers in their little neighborhood on a Roman hill. For anyone who loves Rome-or wants to know it-this is a gorgeous, informative audiobook. It is also an illuminating account of how a writer transforms experience into sentences, how this writer sees and captures the world.

Anthony Doerr (Author), Anthony Doerr (Narrator)

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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

All the Light We Cannot See is Anthony Doerr's most ambitious, elaborate, and dazzling novel yet. Set during World War II, the novel expertly interweaves the lives of a blind French girl, Marie-Laure, and an orphaned German boy, Werner, whose paths collide as they try to survive the physical and emotional destruction of the war. Built on an intricate, labyrinthine structure, the novel presents the gradually-intersecting stories of all those within it, the relationships that hold them together and the journeys each character undertakes. At the novel’s opening, Marie Laure lives with her father in an apartment in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural history where he works as the master of the locks (there are 20,000 in the museum). When she is nine, 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 teach her feet to walk the real space. When the Germans occupy Paris, they flee to Saint Malo on the Brittany coast where Marie-Laure’s great uncle, severely agoraphobic, lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world, in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at the elite and heinously brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of radio-active Hitler Youth to the far flung outskirts of Russia, and finally onto France, comforted by recollections from his childhood and letters to Jutta. In Saint Malo, Werner and Marie-Laure meet. Doerr’s gorgeous and precise observations of the world are equaled by his soaring imagination. This stunning novel is about puzzles, seashells, the walled city of Saint-Malo, a fabled diamond, the power of radio, and the ways, against all odds, we try to be good to one another.

Anthony Doerr (Author), Zach Appelman (Narrator)

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About Grace: A Novel

The first novel by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.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 happen-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 deny the dream. On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind. Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplished.

Anthony Doerr (Author), George Newbern (Narrator)

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La luz que no puedes ver

Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2015.Un corazón puro puede brillar aun en la noche más oscura. Y en el más terrible de los tiempos.Marie-Laure vive con su padre en París, cerca del Museo de Historia Natural, donde él trabaja como responsable de sus mil cerraduras. Cuando, siendo muy niña, Marie-Laure se queda ciega, su padre le construye una perfecta miniatura de su barrio para que pueda memorizarla gracias al tacto y encontrar el camino a casa. A sus doce años, los nazis ocupan París y padre e hija tienen que huir a la ciudad amurallada de Saint-Malo. Con ellos se llevan la que podría ser la más preciada y peligrosa joya del museo.En una ciudad minera de Alemania, el joven huérfano Werner crece junto a su hermana pequeña, cautivado por una rudimentaria radio que ambos encuentran. Werner se convierte en un experto en construir y reparar estos aparatos cruciales para los nuevos tiempos, un talento que no pasa desapercibido a las Juventudes Hitlerianas.Siguiendo al ejército alemán, Werner deberá atravesar el corazón en guerra de Europa. Hasta que en la última noche antes de la liberación de Saint-Malo los caminos de Werner y Marie-Laure por fin se crucen. Y sus vidas cambien para siempre.N.º 1 en las listas de bestsellers en Estados Unidos. Finalista del National Book Award. Mejor novela de 2014 en iTunes. Entre los mejores diez libros del año para The New York Times. Nº. 1 de ficción histórica de 2014 en Goodreads. Premio 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal de novela de la American Library Association. Estoy leyendo un libro maravilloso. Solo llevo la mitad así que no puedo hablar hasta el final, pero es un verdadero placer. Quería contároslo. Estilo impecable, personajes maravillosos y una vívida recreación de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. ¿Qué más se puede pedir?... ¿Y no es preciosa la cubierta? Kate MortonReseñas: La luz que no puedes ver es un clásico instantáneo, y, además, para todos los públicos. Quien no se deje arrastrar por su trama lo hará por la emoción, y habrá quien quede embobado, simplemente, ante el lirismo de la prosa de Doerr. Una experiencia memorable. Juan Manuel Freire, El Dominical Uno de los puntos fuertes de esta novela es situar al lector en la época como alguien de la época, sin todo lo que hoy sabemos y no podemos olvidar. Inocencia Newman, Qué Leer Inolvidablemente hermoso. The New York Times No creo que este año vaya a leer un libro mejor que La luz que no puedes ver. Washington Post Una hermosa, valiente, desgarradora y extrañamente alegre novela. The Seattle Times Incandescente... Una luminosa obra de lucha y trascendencia. O, the Oprah magazine Magnífica. The Guardian Una obra de arte. BBC

Anthony Doerr (Author), Miguel Angel Jenner, Miguel ángel Jenner (Narrator)

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Memory Wall: Stories

Anthony Doerr, a Guggenheim Fellow, has had his fiction honored with three O. Henry Prizes and the Rome Prize, among other accolades. This collection's titular story won the National Magazine Award for Fiction, and each poignant tale touches in some way on the elusiveness of memory and on humans' daily interaction with fleeting-and not so fleeting-remembrances. "Doerr has set a new standard for what a story can do."-Dave Eggers

Anthony Doerr (Author), Jennifer Ikeda, Lisette Lecat, Louis Changchien (Narrator)

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Sobre Grace

La primera novela del autor del best seller internacional La luz que no puedes ver , Premio Pulitzer 2015. Desde su niñez en Alaska, David Winkler ha vivido obsesionado por la nieve. Además, David tiene un don: a veces puede ver cosas antes de que ocurran. Sus premoniciones le permiten saber que un vecino será atropellado por el autobús o que se enamorará de una mujer en un supermercado. Pero cuando David sueña que su hija se va a ahogar en una inundación sin que él pueda salvarla, toda su vida se desmorona. Huir de su familia, de su casa y de su propio futuro parece el único modo de negar el sueño que lo atormenta. Solo, sin medios y sin saber si su hija ha sobrevivido o si su mujer ha conseguido perdonarlo, David tendrá que comenzar una nueva vida. Hasta el día en que deba enfrentarse a la decisión de buscar a las personas que dejó atrás. Haciendo uso de una prosa luminosa, Doerr ha creado una inolvidable novela sobre el poder del amor y la belleza de la naturaleza, y sobre los pequeños milagros que transforman nuestras vidas. Reseñas: «Anthony Doerr recorre de nuevo territorio conocido: el embeleso por la naturaleza expresado mediante una prosa magistral.» The New York Times «Decir que este libro es bonito, extraordinario o emotivo es como no decir nada. En comparación con la perfecta prosa de Anthony Doerr cualquier descripción de esta novela parece trivial. Tan solo compre Sobre Grace, llame al trabajo para decir que está enfermo, apague el móvil y compruebe usted mismo lo buena que puede llegar a ser la ficción actual.» The Guardian «Una fantástica hazaña literaria. Casi perfecta.» The Independent « Sobre Grace alcanza un nivel narrativo al alcance de muy pocos.» Qué leer Los blogueros opinan: «Los personajes son muy humanos y creíbles. La forma de narrar está llena de emociones. Los cambios del tiempo tienen un papel fundamental en las decisiones que tome el protagonista y nos adentrarán en unas páginas cargadas de una magia apasionante.» Web Los libros de Jade. «Si por algo destaca Anthony Doerr es por su maestría narrativa y en Sobre Grace no iba a pecar de ello. Con una prosa cuidada, magistral, que hipnotiza y que traslada al lector a este mundo o, mejor dicho, a cada una de las situaciones que recrea en la novela, describiendo a la perfección cada detalle, en especial la naturaleza y las sensaciones que rodean a los personajes.» Blog Chronicle cover. «La verdad es que se trata de un libro mágico, sorprendente, con muchos giros argumentales y en el que nunca sabes qué pasará a continuación.» Web Entérate de lo último «¿Qué decir de la novela? Es asombrosa y elocuente, tan buena como La luz que no puedes ver » Blog La da Chavechny «Un gran comienzo el de esta novela, mostrándonos a un hombre enamorado a partir de un sueño y que consigue salirse con la suya y conquistar a su amada» Blog Búho entre libros. «Anthony Doerr me ha conquistado, por lo que me veo en la obligación de recomendar su libro» Blog Rustis y Mustis leen.

Anthony Doerr (Author), Jordi Salas (Narrator)

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About Grace

Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr.Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach.Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees.He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out...

Anthony Doerr (Author), George Newbern, George Newburn (Narrator)

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The Shell Collector

The showstopping debut from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEEA blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal's mind by touching its freshly dead body. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandesitne act of burying the hearts of beached whales.In The Shell Collector Antony Doerr illuminates both the riotous dangers of the natural world and the rocky terrain of the human heart.

Anthony Doerr (Author), Robert G. Slade (Narrator)

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