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| ISBN: | 1439182809 (ISBN13: 9781439182802) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.anthonydoerr.com/books/memory-wall/ |
| Literary Awards: | The Story Prize (2010), 本屋大賞 Nominee for Translated Fiction (2012) |
Anthony Doerr
Hardcover | Pages: 243 pages Rating: 4.09 | 5133 Users | 716 Reviews
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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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| Title | : | Memory Wall |
| Author | : | Anthony Doerr |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 243 pages |
| Published | : | July 13th 2010 by Scribner |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 5133 Users | 716 ReviewsCrit About Books Memory Wall
This is my first experience reading Anthony Doerr, but it will not be the last. I loved reading these stories. My reactions varied throughout from frustration to sadness to happiness to occasional fleeting moments of joy as I watched these people struggling with momentous choices or small, repeating incidents building in their lives. The concept of memory and it's place in our everyday lives is used from many different angles, effectively from my view. To say much more would be to try to*Received from Goodreads' First Reads program*In its short existence, there have been many masters of the short story. Flannery O'Connor. Anton Chekhov. Raymond Carver. Jorge Luis Borges. Some of them were writers of larger works, but we tend to remember them best for their short pieces. Ambrose Bierce. Stephen Crane. Zora Neale Hurston. Eudora Welty. John Cheever. Many of these writers belonged to a different era, a time when short stories were appreciated, even revered. Guy de Maupassant.
"What is memory anyway? How can it be such a frail, perishable thing?These are the central questions in this novella plus additional short stories. Without trying to provide easy answers or falling back on clichés, Doerr takes the reader deep into the fractured minds of his characters.I was immediately drawn into the title novellas premise, set in Cape Town. Alzheimer afflicted Alma has had a medical procedure to allow her memories to be reaped and replayed electronically. We get to know her in
Anthony Doerr is a god. I probably wouldn't have picked up this book on my own---I'm not usually one to go for a lot of short story collections---except that I went to a live reading by Doerr at my university, in which he read the bonus story from the 2011 edition of MEMORY WALL, "The Deep". And it was something like part-scripture, part-science fiction for me. All poetry. I knew I had to buy the book.The experience of reading Doerr's stories is somewhat spiritual, in a very earthy, humanizing
(Some individual stories, like the title story, 5 stars)I am not a big fan of short stories (I prefer novels because I like to have the time to really get emotionally invested in characters) but I have been trying to give more short story collections a try since You Are Not a Stranger Here showed me just how potent they can be in the right author's hands. This is my first Anthony Doerr book, and after reading his brilliant story collection I am glad to have two more of his books waiting on my
Every hour, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during that same hour children are moving about, surveying territory that seems to them entirely new. They push back the darkness; they scatter memories behind them like bread crumbs. The world is remade.No surprise that the stories in Memory Wall all focus on memory, attempts to retrieve it and loss. The three most successful stories (Memory Wall, Village 113 and Afterworld)
"Memory Wall" - the first story really knocked my socks off. This is set in South Africa during a time when doctors can implant a device in your head to help combat dementia. There is a lot to this story, but I don't want to give it all away. "Procreate, Generate" - a couple struggles with the stress of infertility. "The Demilitarized Zone" - a divorced couple corresponds with their son who is away at war. "Village 113" - an entire village is about to be flooded out for the advancement of
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