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All the Light We Cannot See: Collins Modern Classics

Autor Anthony Doerr
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2021

Considerăm că acest roman este o manifestare sublimă a ficțiunii istorice contemporane, care reușește să subverseze convențiile genului prin transformarea traumei colective a celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial într-o experiență senzorială intimă. Anthony Doerr nu se limitează la a documentariza atrocitățile, ci construiește o punte între două destine fragile: Marie-Laure, care navighează Parisul și apoi Saint-Malo prin intermediul machetelor tactile construite de tatăl său, și Werner, a cărui genialitate tehnică în domeniul comunicațiilor radio devine biletul său de intrare într-o academie brutală a Tineretului Hitlerist. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la The Book Thief de Markus Zusak, deși utilizarea luminii — atât ca fenomen fizic, cât și ca metaforă a cunoașterii — marchează o voce proprie, mult mai analitică și mai densă în detalii fizice. Observăm cum proza lui Doerr funcționează ca un mecanism de ceasornic, amintind de meseria tatălui protagonistei; capitolele scurte pulsează cu o precizie poetică, alternând între perspectivele celor doi tineri până când liniile lor de viață converg inevitabil. În contextul operei sale, dacă Cloud Cuckoo Land explorează interconectarea umană prin secole, acest roman se concentrează pe „lumina pe care nu o putem vedea” — acele unde radio și acte de bunătate invizibile care persistă chiar și în cele mai întunecate perioade ale istoriei. Este o lectură care nu mizează pe șocul violenței, ci pe acumularea lentă a tensiunii morale, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care individul încearcă să rămână integru într-un sistem care cere dezumanizare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780008485191
ISBN-10: 0008485194
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 127 x 194 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Collins Modern Classics
Seria Collins Modern Classics


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută o poveste de război profund umană, unde accentul cade pe reziliența spiritului și pe frumusețea detaliului. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra istoriei prin ochii unui personaj care percepe lumea prin sunet și atingere. Este o alegere ideală pentru cei care au apreciat The Nightingale de Kristin Hannah, dar care își doresc o scriitură mai cerebrală și mai tehnică, premiată cu cel mai prestigios premiu literar american.


Despre autor

Anthony Doerr (născut la 27 octombrie 1973) este un scriitor american de o rară migală, recunoscut la nivel mondial pentru stilul său liric și cercetarea istorică meticuloasă. A atins celebritatea internațională cu All the Light We Cannot See, proiect la care a lucrat timp de un deceniu și care i-a adus Premiul Pulitzer pentru ficțiune în 2015. Opera sa, care include și succesul recent Cloud Cuckoo Land, este marcată de o fascinație pentru lumea naturală, pentru tehnologie și pentru firele invizibile care leagă oamenii de-a lungul timpului și spațiului, consolidându-i poziția de maestru al prozei contemporane.


Notă biografică

Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome and Memory Wall. Doerr's short fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. He has won the Rome Prize, and shared the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award with Jonathan Safran Foer. In 2007 Granta placed Doerr on its list of the "21 Best Young American novelists." Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.


Descriere scurtă

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. 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 model of her Paris neighbourhood she traces with her fingers; the microscopic layers within the diamond in the Museum of Natural History; the unmapped future which brings her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, whose talents draw the attention of the Hitler Youth. A deeply moving novel about the ways people try to be good to one another, All the Light We Cannot See has touched the hearts of millions of readers across the world, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

'Far more than a conventional war story, it's a tightly focused epic ... A bittersweet and moving novel that lingers in the mind' Daily Mail


Recenzii

"A tender exploration of this world's paradoxes; the beauty of the laws of nature and the terrible ends to which war subverts them; the frailty and the resilience of the human heart; the immutability of a moment and the healing power of time. The language is as expertly crafted as the master locksmith's models in the story, and the settings as intricately evoked. A compelling and uplifting novel."--M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans
"This jewel of a story is put together like a vintage timepiece, its many threads coming together so perfectly. Doerr's writing and imagery are stunning. It's been a while since a novel had me under its spell in this fashion. The story still lives on in my head."--Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
""All the Light We Cannot See" is a dazzling, epic work of fiction. Anthony Doerr writes beautifully about the mythic and the intimate, about snails on beaches and armies on the move, about fate and love and history and those breathless, unbearable moments when they all come crashing together."--Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins
"Doerr sees the world as a scientist, but feels it as a poet. He knows about everything"--radios, diamonds, mollusks, birds, flowers, locks, guns--but he also writes a line so beautiful, creates an image or scene so haunting, it makes you think forever differently about the big things--love, fear, cruelty, kindness, the countless facets of the human heart. Wildly suspenseful, structurally daring, rich in detail and soul, Doerr's new novel is that" novel, the one you savor, and ponder, and happily lose sleep over, then go around urging all your friends to read--now."--J.R. Moehringer, author of Sutton and The Tender Bar
"What a delight! This novel has exquisite writing and a wonderfully suspenseful story. A book you'll tell your friends about..."--Frances Itani, author of Deafening
"Anthony Doerr can find the universe in a grain of sand and write characters I care about with my whole heart."--Karen Russell, author of St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
"Intricately structured..."All the Light We Cannot See" is a work of art and of preservation."--Jane Ciabattari "BBC "
"Incandescent...Mellifluous and unhurried...Characters as noble as they are enthralling. Doerr looms myriad strains into a luminous work of strife and transcendence."--Hamilton Cain "O, the Oprah magazine "
"This novel has the physical and emotional heft of a masterpiece...[All the Light We Cannot See] presents two characters so interesting and sympathetic that readers will keep turning the pages hoping for an impossibly happy ending...Highly recommended for fans of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient."--Evelyn Beck "Library Journal (starred review) "
"Exquisite...All the Light We Cannot See", 10 years under construction, is the written equivalent of a Botticelli painting or a Michelangelo sculpture--as filled with light and beauty as the landscapes, museums, and cathedrals...in Rome...Meticulously researched and chock full of beautiful imagery...Nothing short of brilliant, All the Light We Cannot See "gives off the kind of mesmerizing and legend-making light as that of the mysterious diamond that sits in the center of the story."--Alice Evans "Portland Oregonian "
"Boy meets girl in Anthony Doerr's hauntingly beautiful new book, but the circumstances are as elegantly circuitous as they can be....Werner's experience at the school is only one of the many trials through which Mr. Doerr puts his characters in this surprisingly fresh and enveloping book. What's unexpected about its impact is that the novel does not regard Europeans' wartime experience in a new way. Instead, Mr. Doerr's nuanced approach concentrates on the choices his characters make and on the souls that have been lost, both living and dead."--Janet Maslin "The New York Times "
"Doerr, a fabulous writer, pens an epic novel about a blind French girl and a German boy in occupied France and their struggles to survive World War II."--Mary Ann Gwinn "Seattle Times "
"Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits."--Elissa Schappell "Vanity Fair "
"Exquisite...Mesmerizing...Nothing short of brilliant."--Alice Evans "Portland Oregonian "
"Hauntingly beautiful."--Janet Maslin "The New York Times "
"History intertwines with irresistible fiction--secret radio broadcasts, a cursed diamond, a soldier's deepest doubts--into a richly compelling, bittersweet package."--Mary Pols "People (3 1/2 stars) "
"Enthrallingly told, beautifully written...Every piece of back story reveals information that charges the emerging narrative with significance, until at last the puzzle-box of the plot slides open to reveal the treasure hidden inside."--Amanda Vaill "Washington Post "
"Stupendous...A beautiful, daring, heartbreaking, oddly joyous novel."--David Laskin "The Seattle Times "
"Doerr has packed each of his scenes with such refractory material that All the Light We Cannot See" reflects a dazzling array of themes....Startlingly fresh."--John Freeman "The Boston Globe "
"Gorgeous... moves with the pace of a thriller... Doerr imagines the unseen grace, the unseen light that, occasionally, surprisingly, breaks to the surface even in the worst of times."--Dan Cryer "San Francisco Chronicle "
"Incandescent... a luminous work of strife and transcendence... with characters as noble as they are enthralling"--Hamilton Cain "O, the Oprah magazine "
"To open a book by Anthony Doerr is to open a door on humanity...His sentences shimmer...His paragraphs are luminous with bright, sparkling beauty."--Martha Anne Toll "Washington Independent Review of Books "
"This tough-to-put-down book proves its worth page after lyrical page...Each and every person in this finely spun assemblage is distinct and true."--Sharon Peters "USA Today "
"Doerr is an exquisite stylist; his talents are on full display."--Alan Cheuse "NPR "
"Vivid...["All the Light We Cannot See"] brims with scrupulous reverence for all forms of life. The invisible light of the title shines long after the last page."--Tricia Springstubb "Cleveland Plain Dealer "
"A revelation."--Michael Magras "BookReporter.com "
"Doerr conjures up a vibrating, crackling world...Intricately, beautifully crafted."--Rebecca Kelley "Bustle.com "
"Perfectly captured...Doerr writes sentences that are clear-eyed, taut, sweetly lyrical."--Josh Cook "Minneapolis Star Tribune "
"The craftsmanship of Doerr's book is rooted in his ability to inhabit the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner...[A] fine novel."--Steve Novak "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "
"Doerr deftly guides "All the Light We Cannot See" toward the day Werner's and Marie-Laure lives intersect during the bombing of Saint-Malo in what may be his best work to date."--Yvonne Zipp "Christian Science Monitor "
"Magnificent."--Carmen Callil "The Guardian (UK) "
"A beautiful, expansive tale...Ambitious and majestic."--Steph Cha "Los Angeles Times "
"Anthony Doerr writes beautifully... A tour de force."--Elizabeth Reed "Deseret Morning News "
"There is so much in this book. It is difficult to convey the complexity, the detail, the beauty and the brutality of this simple story."--Carole O'Brien "Aspen Daily News "
"Beautifully written... Soulful and addictive."--Chris Stuckenschneider "The Missourian "