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Doerrs gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of MarieLaure, a blind girl who flees Paris during the Nazi occupation, and Werner, a German orphan boy who becomes a highly specialised tracker of the Resistance, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, that people try to be good to one another.

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Anthony Doerr, 1973 in Cleveland geboren, gilt als literarisches Talent. Doerr erhielt den Black Warrior Review Literary Prize, den Discover Prize, die Princeton s Hodder Fellowship, zweimal den O. Henry Prize, den Young Lions Award und den Rom-Preis der American Academy of Arts and Letters. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und zwei Söhnen in Boise, Idaho.

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