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Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.

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 teenaged orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. 'Village 113' is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seedkeeper 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.

The stories in Memory Wall show us how we figure the world, and show Anthony Doerr to be one of the masters of the form.

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Fourth Estate
Publication date

6 January 2011
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‘It's fair to say that Anthony Doerr is doing things with the short story that have rarely been attempted and seldom achieved. The stories in Memory Wall have such scope and depth that they hit as hard as novels three times their length. Doerr has set a new standard, I think, for what a story can do.’ Dave Eggers

‘Ambitiously wide-ranging and inventive, Doerr’s six stories movingly investigate the ways in which we are nothing without memory.’ Sunday Times

‘Doerr is a lusciously good stylist.’ Guardian

‘If this book's wisdom can be summed up in a single line it is this one, from ‘Afterworld’: ‘Within the wet enclosure of a single mind a person can fly from one decade to the next, one country to another, past to present, memory to imagination.’ That thought informs Memory Wall many times.’ Janet Maslin, Scotsman

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Anthony Doerr is the bestselling and prize-winning author of The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome and Memory Wall. In 2007 Granta named him as one of their 21 Best Young American Novelists and in 2011 he won the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004FPYX22
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate (6 January 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1551 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 260 pages

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Anthony Doerr has won numerous prizes for his fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal. His novel, 'All the Light We Cannot See,' was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and his new novel, 'Cloud Cuckoo Land,' published in September of 2021, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Learn more at www.anthonydoerr.com.

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Phil

Versatile author

Reviewed in Australia on 14 July 2021

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If I needed more proof that Doer is a fine and versatile author I have it. Many authors take you down a path that they have trodden before and that's ok but to experience a skilled author who can takes you down many different roads with skill and fantastic character development is rare.
I particularly like the work that has to go into the use of short sentences which convey such so efficiently.

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Quietly beautiful, strange yet familiar.

Reviewed in Australia on 27 June 2017

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Memory Wall is acutely poignant and quietly beautiful , written in Anthony Doerr's signiture style of wonderfully strange and yet so familiar. To me reminiscent of Murakami's great works.

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Gregory Wallace

A bit disappointing

Reviewed in Australia on 13 January 2015

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After having first read "All The Light We Cannot See", i found the first story of this book both slow and confusing, which left me less enthusiastic about reading the other 3 stories.

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Nanoboy

Truly truly beautiful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2017

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Predictably some stories are a little better than others but some, my goodness, are achingly haunting. Incredibly well written in places. Sounds terrible but rather hard to believe this is an American author. He really is something special.

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MEM

Enormously Enjoyable Set of Tales

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2019

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Each one of these carefully crafted tales holds the reader - sometimes gently, sometimes with force - always ultimately with enjoyment as the gift left behind.

Bravo sir.

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jesjaspers

So annoying Audible is in German only

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2022

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The English book links to the German Audio!!

Tina 45

Wonderful writer

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 July 2018

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Having read All the Light We Cannot See I wanted to try more books by Anthony Doerr. I was not disappointed each story is brilliant.

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Kenneth James Walker

A good easy read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2020

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I went to school in SA, I could smell the story all the way through. A good read, a good story, thought provoking but sometimes a little unrealistic.

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