{"title":"Anthony Doerr","description":"Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times bestselling Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.","products":[{"product_id":"all-the-light-we-cannot-see-paperback","title":"All the Light We Cannot See - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCOMING IN NOVEMBER AS A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from producer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand director\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Shawn Levy (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStranger Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003estarring\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eTop 10 Book 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDoerr's \"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer \"whose sentences never fail to thrill\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101557362911,"sku":"9781501173219","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OER5TkI4L2JiWGtJYlZoVitHR2JmQT09.webp?v=1781071720"},{"product_id":"cloud-cuckoo-land-paperback","title":"Cloud Cuckoo Land - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller list for over 20 weeks * A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by\u003ci\u003e Fresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Associated Press, and many more\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"If you're looking for a superb novel, look no further.\" \u003ci\u003e--The Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e, comes the instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller that is a \"wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that's infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, \u003ci\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna's will cross. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101608841439,"sku":"9781982168445","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VVJkaVZyYVdDS3BkMDJQSEMyR1hZdz09.webp?v=1781071817"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/anthony-doerr.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}