Anthony Doerr

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...

The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the 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...

Traveling with his wife and six-month-old twins from Boise to Italy for a year of writing as a fellow in literature at the American Academy in Rome, Doerr offers us a glimpse of what it is to be a father, a writer, and a visitor in a city where Etruscans once ate parrot soup and the neighborhood bakeries are sublime. Housed about 500 yards from the Vatican with the families of other academy fellows, Doerr and his wife must overcome not only a language...

El esperado regreso del autor de La luz que no puedes ver, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, con una ambiciosa novela llena de imaginación y emoción sobre el poder de la palabra escrita. Los jóvenes héroes de esta novela intentan entender el mundo que los 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...