The Shell Collector

8 hrs. 14 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Anthony Doerr

Narrator Alexander Ogorodov

Description

First time in Russian—a debut book by Anthony Doerr, the author of the astonishing international bestseller “All the Light We Cannot See.” Eight tender, poetic stories about the eternal and unsolvable problems: about the boundless nature and humanity’s place in it, about the incomprehensibility of love and the unbearable pain of loss.

Here, a blind shell collector can determine the type of each specimen with absolute accuracy—simply by feeling the curves, knots, and folds. Here, a young girl, touching a bear asleep in hibernation, can feel what it is dreaming. Here, a paleontologist learns to run across Africa to catch up with the savage of his dream.

Contents:

The Shell Collector
The Hunter’s Wife
Rare Luck
The Story of Grizelda and More
Fourth of July
The Caretaker
A Tangled Case on the Rapid River
Mkondo
Acknowledgments