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

Memory Wall

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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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)

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"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

Disappointed in this book, and it came so highly recommended! :) I do have to say that his writing style is nice, I enjoy the simplicity and also the depth with his careful word choice. For my tastes, the style is slightly too abrubt, but just as I said, that is just my taste. He did a good job at making these characters come alive and without actually saying but showing exactly what they feel. I was disappointed though with the lack of direction that the stories seem to take. The only direction

Aldous Huxley once famously said, Every mans memory is his private literature. In this luminous collection of short stories (including an 83 page novella), Anthony Doerr probes the fragility and endurance of memory, in locales that vary from South Africa to Hamburgfrom Lithuania to Wyomingand from the heinousness of the Holocaust to an immediate dystopian future.This masterful collection is bookmarked by an opening and an ending story with two diverse elderly women as key protagonists. The title

The six stories in Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall are generous, gorgeous, and far-reaching in scope. They push to the very edges of form, exploring the limits of what a short story can and should do. From the first (title) story, set in a near-future South Africa, we sense the uniqueness of this collection through the search for a million-dollar fossil, cartridges of memories found, lost, then re-found, viewed like reel-to-reel movies, fading photos, and the thoughts and memories that make us who

I enjoyed this author's novel "All the Light We Cannot See", and read this book because I was hungry for more. It did not disappoint. This book is a collection of short stories which the author depicts as concerning memory. His writing is beautiful and descriptions poetic. I did not discern the specific memory connection touted in the title, probably because that is subtle and I am not always good at subtle. I found the book fascinating because it depicted a wide range of situations in which

I want to marry Anthony Doerr. Oh, wait, I'm already married. Then I'll have to do the next best thing: read everything else he's written, because I love the company of his mind, love traveling through his continents, inspecting with his creations the symbols and shards of memory that form a life and its contingencies. Doerr's tight writing paradoxically evokes whole worlds of culture, time, history, and real, breathing characters. We go to Africa, Lithuania, Germany, Wyoming, China in this

Update: I'm thrilled that Memory Wall is one of three nominees for the Story Prize. Now I have to catch up with the others. Here's my prepress review from Library Journal.Library JournalSuppose you've entered the foreign territory of senile dementia and a surgical procedure could charge your brain's damaged neurons and make your memories available to you once again. That's the supposition behind "Memory Wall," the title story of Doerr's compelling new collection and the metaphorical underpinning