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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)

Memory Wall

Anthony Doerr

Hardcover | Pages: 243 pages

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Title	:	Memory Wall
Author	:	Anthony Doerr
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 243 pages
Published	:	July 13th 2010 by Scribner
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Contemporary

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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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Podcasts have really been influencing my reading lately. This is the second book I went looking for after the "Forbidden Crushes" episode of Dear Sugar Radio (the first was Wedlocked: A Memoir by Jay Ponteri.) This collection of stories had nothing to do with the topic of forbidden crushes, but was mentioned in passing. Most people know Doerr from his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See, but he had published a few books prior to that success. I was unfamiliar with his

*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.

Every now and then I find a piece of literature that proves that a certain alignment of letters on a page can totally surpass being classified as 'language' and express the deepest echoes of the human heart. This miracle of storytelling happened for me a couple of times in this book. Where you simply have to stop, close your eyes, and literally feel the pull of the words as they pluck your individual heart strings. This is a collection of short stories. Varying tales of love and loss, and the

Tony Doerr knocks it out of the park with this one. His writing is achingly beautiful, at every level. Doerr chooses the perfect words, crafts sentences that make your heart feel too big for your chest, and repeatedly surprises--repeatedly offers up the thing that's both unexpected and exactly right. The stories are magical in that they each contain something not-quite-of-this world: a memory machine, an epileptic ability to connect across time and space, an impossible sturgeon. It's not

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)

enjoyable short stories looking at human life and memories through different eyes, places and culture. the author takes us a journey through the lifes of a dementia sufferer, a jewish girl growing up in Nazi Germany and in latter life in the USA. an orphan who travels to eastern Europe and begins life again with relatives and at the heart of the stories is how humans can adapt and his uses lovely prose and you feel for some of the characters.

This is a beautiful collection of stories that explore memory, its power, its pain, and how it affects who we are and how we live. I found every story meaningful. I choked up repeatedly--I was not prepared for how sad and poignant the stories are.The title story is a futuristic tale of a time when memories can be extracted from the mind and kept in cartridges. The story is set in South Africa and deals with apartheid as well as the memory loss of the elderly woman, Alma, the subject of the