Anthony Doerr

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Novejshij roman Entoni Dorra, avtora knigi "Ves nevidimyj nam svet", udostoennoj Pulitserovskoj premii; kak i etot mezhdunarodnyj bestseller, "Ptichij gorod za oblakami" byl vkljuchen v short-list Natsionalnoj knizhnoj premii SSHA. Roman vystroen podobno matreshke (ili "Oblachnomu atlasu" Devida Mitchella): zdes khitroumno perekreschivajutsja zhizni i sudby Anny i Omira, prebyvajuschikh po raznye storony steny v osazhdennom turkami Konstantinopole 1453 goda, a takzhe pozhilogo entuziasta drevnegrecheskoj literatury Zeno i junogo ekoterrorista Sejmura v sovremennom Ajdakho, a takzhe Konstantsii, kotoraja letit k dalekoj ekzoplanete na korable "Argo" pod upravleniem vseznajuschej Sivilly. Podobno Mari-Lore i Verneru v romane "Ves nevidimyj nam svet", vse pjatero zdes - mechtateli i autsajdery, ne terjajuschie nadezhdy i posredi samogo besprosvetnogo, kazalos by, khaosa i otchajanija: "Ptichij gorod za oblakami" pokazyvaet, chto dlja nas esche ne vse poterjano - i chto vazhnym instrumentom spasenija javljaetsja imenno literatura" (Boston Globe) - naprimer, mificheskaja istorija drevnego greka Aitona, mechtajuschego obernutsja ptitsej i uletet v skazochnyj zaoblachnyj gorod... "Ptichij gorod za oblakami" okhvatyvaet neverojatnyj diapazon znanij i zhiznennogo opyta. Eto chelovechnaja i vdokhnovljajuschaja kniga dlja vzroslykh, napolnennaja nezabyvaemoj magiej chitatelskikh vpechatlenij detstva" (New York Times Book Review).

Pulitzerpriset, Carnegie-medalj, ABIA-vinnare och mer än 200 veckor på New York Times bästsäljarlistaNu kommer boken som översatts till fler än 40 språk som Netflixserie i regi av Stranger Things Shawn Levy.Ljuset vi inte ser är en modern klassiker om människor, som mot alla odds, kämpar för att överleva. Den franska flickan Marie-Laure har nyligen blivit blind och kan bara tolka krigets fasor genom ljud, dofter och beröring. I Tyskland drömmer barnhemspojken Werner om att bli radiotekniker, men kan bara undslippa ett hårt liv i kolgruvan genom Hitlerjugend. När Marie-Laure flyr det ockuperade Paris och Werner skickas på ett hemligt uppdrag förenas deras öden i Saint-Malo en stad som kommer att totalförstöras av kriget. Anthony Doerrs Ljuset vi inte ser har mer än 1 miljon 5-stärniga omdömen på internationella läsarforum. Den gripande historien om grymheten som en gång slog klorna i Europa och om godheten som göms i djupet av våra hjärtan lämnar ingen oberörd."Oerhört vackert berättad." Östgöta Corren "Det här en bok att leva i. Som gjord för en lång resa." Ingalill Mosander, Go'kväll "Ett mästerverk! En fängslande berättelse som aldrig släpper taget." Tidningen Allas "En berättelse med stort b för den som vill låta sig svepas bort ger hopp om ljus även i de mörkaste av tider." Hufvudstadsbladet "Texterna är som poesi, ändå bland det mest lättillgängliga jag läst. Jag bara läste och läste och plötsligt var boken slut. Ändå känns det som att jag tar med mig något riktigt stort från den." Alexander Schulman "Angelägen inte bara för sin skildring av hur människor i onda tider kan framstå som trovärdiga också i all sin osannolika godhet, utan också för den tidsatmosfär författaren fångat med såväl sakkunskap som detaljrikedom." BibliotekstjänstAnthony Doerr har skrivit sex kritikerrosade verk, varav Ljuset vi inte ser, Grace och En bättre värld finns översatta till svenska. Hans böcker är kända för sina fascinerande människoöden, uppslukande historier och förmågan att öppna nya världar.

Alt lyset vi ikke ser har rørt millioner av lesere verden over. Det er en sterk og gripende roman om mot og tvil, og om den godheten som ligger dypt forankret i våre hjerter, selv i de mørkeste tider. Vi følger livsløpet til franske Marie-Laure LeBlanc og tyske Werner Pfennig under andre verdenskrig. Marie-Laure mister synet som seksåring og er blind når nazistene okkuperer Paris. Foreldreløse Werner er et teknisk vidunderbarn, men han vokser opp på et barnehjem i en tysk gruveby hvor skjebnen er å jobbe i kullgruvene hvor faren døde. I løpet av krigsårene må Marie-Laure flykte fra Paris med sin far, mens Werners evner snart sikrer ham en plass på et eliteakademi for Hitlerjugend. På elegant vis veves livet til Marie-Laure og Werner sammen, og Doerr belyser på hvilken måte vi mennesker, mot alle odds, prøver å være gode mot hverandre.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian

SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES – from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father’s life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in. Doerr’s combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electric. As Europe is engulfed by war and lives collide unpredictably, All The Light We Cannot See is a captivating and devastating elegy for innocence. ‘Sublime’ The Times ‘Such a page-turner, entirely absorbing … Magnificent’ Guardian ‘A masterpiece’ Financial Times ‘Epic … A bittersweet and moving novel that lingers in the mind’ Daily Mail ‘A vastly entertaining feat of storytelling’ New York Times

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge. Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill" (Los Angeles Times).

Kolmeteistaastane orb Anna elab Konstantinoopoli müüride varjus koos majatäie naistega, kes teenivad elatist preestrirüüsid tikkides. Rahutu ja uudishimulik Anna õpib lugema ja leiab sellest raamatukogude poolest tuntud iidsest linnast raamatu, mis pajatab loo Aethonist, kes igatseb muutuda linnuks, et ta saaks lennata utoopilisse taevaparadiisi. Anna loeb raamatut oma haigele õele, sellal kui linnamüüre pommitatakse Konstantinoopolit tabanud suure piiramise käigus. Teispool müüri on külapoiss Omeir sattunud kodust kaugele, olles koos oma armastatud härgadega sissetungijate väkke värvatud. Tema ja Anna teed ristuvad.Viissada aastat hiljem harjutab sõjavangina kreeka keelt õppinud kaheksakümneaastane Zeno ühes Idaho raamatukogus koos viie lapsega kõige kiuste sajandeid säilinud Aethoni loo põhjal kirjutatud näidendiks. Raamatukogu riiulites on aga pomm, mille peitis sinna idealistliku maailmavaatega teismeline Seymour. Olukord on otsekui järjekordne piiramine. Ja sugugi mitte kauges tulevikus on Konstance üksinda tähelaeva Argose kambris ning kopeerib kotiriidetükkidele Aethoni lugu, mida ta isa talle kunagi jutustas. Konstance pole kordagi jalga meie planeedile tõstnud.Hinnatud ameerika kirjanik Anthony Doerr ( sünd 27. oktoobril 1973) sai üle ilma kuulsaks oma raamatuga "Kõik see silmale nähtamatu valgus", mis võitis 2015. aastal Pulitzeri ilukirjanduse auhinna. Lisaks nimetatud romaanile on tema sules ilmunud ka novellikogusid ja romaan "About Grace".

Vpervye na russkom - novejshij roman Entoni Dorra, avtora knigi "Ves nevidimyj nam svet", udostoennoj Pulitserovskoj premii; kak i etot mezhdunarodnyj bestseller, "Ptichij gorod za oblakami" vkljuchen v short-list Natsionalnoj knizhnoj premii SSHA. Roman vystroen podobno matreshke (ili "Oblachnomu atlasu" Devida Mitchella): zdes khitroumno perekreschivajutsja zhizni i sudby Anny i Omira, prebyvajuschikh po raznye storony steny v osazhdennom turkami Konstantinopole 1453 goda, a takzhe pozhilogo entuziasta drevnegrecheskoj literatury Zeno i junogo ekoterrorista Sejmura v sovremennom Ajdakho, a takzhe Konstantsii, kotoraja letit k dalekoj ekzoplanete na korable "Argo" pod upravleniem vseznajuschej Sivilly. Podobno Mari-Lore i Verneru v romane "Ves nevidimyj nam svet", vse pjatero zdes - mechtateli i autsajdery, ne terjajuschie nadezhdy i posredi samogo besprosvetnogo, kazalos by, khaosa i otchajanija: "Ptichij gorod za oblakami" pokazyvaet, chto dlja nas esche ne vse poterjano - i chto vazhnym instrumentom spasenija javljaetsja imenno literatura" (Boston Globe) - naprimer, mificheskaja istorija drevnego greka Aitona, mechtajuschego obernutsja ptitsej i uletet v skazochnyj zaoblachnyj gorod... "Ptichij gorod za oblakami" okhvatyvaet neverojatnyj diapazon znanij i zhiznennogo opyta. Eto chelovechnaja i vdokhnovljajuschaja kniga dlja vzroslykh, napolnennaja nezabyvaemoj magiej chitatelskikh vpechatlenij detstva" (New York Times Book Review).

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ‘A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books’ Guardian ‘There is magic in this place … You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you’ Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity’s last hope. Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself. ‘Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope – all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages’ Observer ‘Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing’ Financial Times ‘This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read’ Daily Mirror

On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more "If you're looking for a superb novel, look no further." --The Washington Post From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a "wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that's infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences" (The New York Times Book Review). Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna's will cross. In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.

Hovedpersonene i Den beste av alle verdener prøver å finne ut av verdenen som omgir dem: Anna og Omeir på hver sin side av bymurene under beleiringen av Konstantinopel i 1453, tenåringsidealisten Seymore under et angrep på et bibliotek i dagens Idaho, og Konstance, som befinner seg på et interstellarisk skip, tiår fram i tid. De er alle drømmere og outsidere som finner styrke og håp når de står midt i det ukjente. Som en rød tråd gjennom hele fortellingen går den eldgamle teksten om Aethon, som lengter etter å bli til en fugl, slik at han kan fly til et paradis i himmelen. Denne historien gir trøst og mystikk til bokens uforglemmelige karakterer. Pulitzerpris-vinner Anthony Doerr har skapt en kaleidoskopisk fortelling som viser hvor tett knyttet vi er til hverandre, til dem som levde før oss, og til dem som vil være her etter oss. Den beste av alle verdener er en hyllest til fortellingenes magi, og er en vakker og forløsende roman om å ta vare på bøkene, jorda og menneskenes hjerte. «Et praktfullt flettverk av historier.» Library Journal, Starred Review «Magisk litterært puslespill.» Kirkus Review, Starred Review «En fantastisk gave av en roman.» Booklist, Starred Review «Et underverk.» Publishers Weekly, Starred Review «Skriv en bok ut fra ideen om at kloden vår er som et slags bibliotek, og vi er med fra første side. Dediser boka til bibliotekarer, Anthony Doerr, og vi er med til siste side og enda lenger enn det. Den gudbenådede historiefortelleren som ga verden Alt lyset vi ikke ser i 2014, er tilbake med enda en lysende, bredt anlagt roman som lykkes i føre sammen tre ulike tidsperioder og fem vidt forskjellige hovedpersoner i en gripende fortelling om ansvaret vi har for å forvalte elementene – inkludert bøkene – som knytter oss sammen.» Canadian Living

On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more "If you're looking for a superb novel, look no further." --The Washington Post From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a "wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that's infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences" (The New York Times Book Review). Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna's will cross. In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.

"Kõik see silmale nähtamatu valgus" on lummav ja salapära täis lugu kahest noorest inimesest, prantsuse neiust Marie-Laure LeBlancist ja saksa noormehest Werner Pfennigist, kelle viivad kokku teise maailmasõja keerdkäigud.Marie-Laure, Pariisi Loodusloomuuseumi pealukksepa tütar, kaotab lapseeas nägemisvõime, ent õpib tänu isa kannatlikkusele ja puust linnamakettidele eluga iseseisvalt toime tulema. Sõja puhkedes on nii isa kui ka tütar sunnitud põgenema väikesesse Saint-Malo linnakesse, et seal tüdruku veidrikust vanaonult peavarju paluda.Werner on orvuks jäänud teadus- ja tehnikahuviline poiss, keda paeluvad eelkõige raadiod. Sõja hakul astub ta Hitlerjugendi ridadesse ning tema arukus ja tehniline taip ei jää juhendajatel märkamata. Peatselt tehakse talle kui andekale raadioside-asjatundjale ülesandeks välja selgitada vastupanuliikumise tugipunktid ja nõnda satubki mööda sõjatandrit ringi rändav Werner lõpuks Prantsusmaale Saint-Malosse."Kõik see silmale nähtamatu valgus" on 2015. aasta Pulitzeri ilukirjanduse preemia võitja.