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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