Seventy-four-year-old Alma Konachek lives in Vredhoek, a suburb above Cape Town: a place of warm rains, big-windowed lofts, and silent, predatory automobiles.
An edition of Memory Wall
(2010)
Memory Wall
First Scribner trade paperback edition (1)
by Anthony Doerr
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In the luminous and beautiful title story, winner of a 2010 National Magazine Award, 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 teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper 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.
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Fiction, Memory, Alzheimer's Disease, infertility, Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), New York Times reviewed, Memory--fiction, Ps3604.o34 m46 2010, 813/.6People
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South Africa, Wyoming, Lithuania, Kansas, Village 113, Three Gorges Dam, Germany, Vredehoek, Cape TownShowing 5 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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Memory Wall
2011-07, Scribner
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Memory Wall: Stories
2010-07, Scribner
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Memory wall
Procreate, generate
The demilitarized zone
Village
The river Nemunas
Afterworld.
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– A Notable Book of 2010 in the New York Times.
– Top 10 Fiction and Literature at Amazon.
– Winner of 2010 The Story Prize.
– Winner of a 2011 Pacific Northwest Book Award.
– A Top 12 Book of 2010 at the Boston Globe.
– A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year.
Featuring four new short stories and two big novellas, Anthony’s second story collection takes place on four continents and addresses issues from Alzheimer’s in South Africa to infertility in Wyoming to fishing for endangered sturgeon in Lithuania. The title novella won the National Magazine Award for Fiction, the second story has been called “a masterpiece of observed detail and intuitive poetic sense, like DeLillo at his best,” the fourth story won an O. Henry Prize, and the fifth story won a 2011 Pushcart Prize. Can a short story collection take you to more places and introduce you to more people than a novel?
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