This is the most beautifully written and moving book I have ever read. It is scrupulously researched. It doesn't shy away form the horror of war and what happens to humans when they turn into monsters. Some hold onto their humanity which is waht makes this book so very precious.
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION
A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.'
For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic…
An island off Tasmania, a convict prison, a convict artist and writer--a fantastical dream which in the end is in ruins and the artist becomes a fish. Or, it is a story that opens another line into the grotesque inhumanity in the time of Australian colonisation. This is a true story. In the end we realise we don't know the truth, and at the same time know more about violence than we ever wanted to know.
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Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared…
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 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…
This book explores new materialist concepts and the way in which they provide an opening up of thought about being human, and about being more-than-human. It explores how we affect each other and are affected in a human and more-than-human world. It works at the interface of living, and of writing-as-inquiry.
