Inhalt:*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). Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-4767-4660-9
Inhalt: Pulitzer-Preis für Literatur 2015 Saint-Malo 1944: Die erblindete Marie-Laure flieht mit ihrem Vater, einem Angestellten des ?Muséum National d?Histoire Naturelle?, aus dem besetzten Paris zu ihrem kauzigen Onkel in die Stadt am Meer. Verborgen in ihrem Gepäck führen sie den wahrscheinlich kostbarsten Schatz des Museums mit sich. Werner Hausner, ein schmächtiger Waisenjunge aus dem Ruhrgebiet, wird wegen seiner technischen Begabung gefördert und landet auf Umwegen in einer Spezialeinheit der Wehrmacht, die die Feindsender der Widerstandskämpfer aufzuspüren versucht. Während Marie-Laures Vater von den Deutschen verschleppt und verhört wird, dringt Werners Einheit nach Saint-Malo vor, auf der Suche nach dem Sender, der die Résistance mit Daten versorgt ? Hochspannend und mit einer außergewöhnlichen Sprachkunst erzählt Anthony Doerr die berührende Geschichte von Marie-Laure und Werner, deren Lebenswege sich für einen schicksalsträchtigen Augenblick kreuzen. Schlagworte: FRD Moderne und zeitgenössische Liebesromane, FYT Belletristik in Übersetzung Umfang: 519 S. ISBN: 978-3-406-66752-7
Inhalt: 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 Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-0-00-847830-8
Inhalt: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" (TheNew 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. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-982168-45-2
Inhalt: Anthony Doerrs neuer, lang erwarteter Roman "Wolkenkuckucksland" ist eine faszinierende Geschichte über das Schicksal, den unschätzbaren Wert, die Macht, die Magie und die alles überdauernde Überlebensfähigkeit von Büchern, Geschichten und Träumen.Im Mittelpunkt dieses großen Romans stehen Kinder an der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden, die sich in einer zerbrechenden Welt zurechtfinden müssen. Anna und Omeir während der Belagerung und Eroberung von Konstantinopel 1453, Seymour, der aus fehlgeleitetem Idealismus einen Anschlag auf eine Bibliothek im heutigen Idaho verübt, und Konstance im Raumschiff "Argos" in der Zukunft, auf dem Weg zu einem Exoplaneten. Was sie alle auf geheimnisvolle und geradezu atemberaubende Weise über Zeiten und Räume miteinander verbindet, ist eine Geschichte über ein utopisches Land in den Wolken. Anthony Doerr schreibt über menschliche Verbindungen ? miteinander, mit der Natur, mit früheren und zukünftigen Generationen. Ihm gelingt es in diesem gleichzeitig wunderschön erzählten, außerordentlich spannenden und wirklich liebevollen Roman ins pulsierende Herz dieser Verwobenheit vorzudringen. Schlagworte: FLG Science-Fiction: Zeitreisen, FV Historischer Roman, FXB Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Heranwachsen, FYT Belletristik in Übersetzung Umfang: 532 S. ISBN: 978-3-406-77432-4
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