Anthony Doerr. First edition (stated), later printing. Dust Jacket: Fine. An unclipped jacket with a mylar protective wrapper. Jacket design by Tal Goretsky and Lynn Buckley. Hardcover: Fine. NY: Scribner, 2014. Blue cloth with blue lettering on spine. No writing or markings in the book, which is like new, 531 pp.
This imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters, explores human nature and the contradictory power of technology. The novel is about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of the war.
Doerr's wonderful work won not only a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2015), but the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (2015), named a National Book Award Finalist and chosen one of the ten best books by the New York Times Book Review (2014).
