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‘It's fair to say that Anthony Doerr is doing things with the short story that have rarely been attempted and seldom achieved. The stories in Memory Wall have such scope and depth that they hit as hard as novels three times their length. Doerr has set a new standard, I think, for what a story can do.’ Dave Eggers
‘Ambitiously wide-ranging and inventive, Doerr’s six stories movingly investigate the ways in which we are nothing without memory.’ Sunday Times
‘Doerr is a lusciously good stylist.’ Guardian
‘If this book's wisdom can be summed up in a single line it is this one, from ‘Afterworld’: ‘Within the wet enclosure of a single mind a person can fly from one decade to the next, one country to another, past to present, memory to imagination.’ That thought informs Memory Wall many times.’ Janet Maslin, Scotsman
‘rewarding collection…he movingly looks ar the ways in which we are nothing without memory’ Sunday Times
‘Like Proust, Doerr understands that reminiscences are prompted by the most mundane things..In doing so, he shows us that memory can transform the terrain of everyday life into something rich, charged, magical’ Independent on Sunday
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Anthony Doerr’s brilliant new collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, and the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.
Now includes ‘The Deep’, which was awarded the 2011 Sunday Times Short Story Award.
In the luminous 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, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. And in ‘Afterworld,’ 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 a master of the form.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found each story intriguing, gripping and touching. The characters are thoughtful people who find themselves in terribly challenging, often traumatic situations. It is beautifully written with a great sense of humanity. These are big short stories about big topics. It is also a very interesting book, Doerr takes us all over the world. Buy this book, don't think twice. It's a memorable collection and the stories live on in the imagination.
Format:Paperback
The trouble with collections of short stories is that I find I like one or two and don't enjoy the rest. This is no exception. The opening, title story is great, a sci-fi story of a future where memories can be recorded and used by dementia sufferers. It's told in a detached, fragmentary style which suits the story. Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that this style is not one merely adopted for the main story, but occurs right through the book. A present tense narrative. Fragments of sentences. Almost like stage direction. Short, clipped, detached descriptions. You get the picture. After reading several stories in this style it was so aggravating it drove me to distraction.
Not that I was keen on the subject matter of some of the other stories either. A tale of a childless couple trying to conceive failed to interest me. A village on the brink of a flood to creat a dam was interesting, had it not been for the style. The final story, of a woman hallucinating images of her experience in the Holocaust could have been very moving, but it skipped about so much in time it lost me, and the same disjointed style had just about driven me nuts by then anyway. So great opening tale, but I really didn't care for the rest!
Not that I was keen on the subject matter of some of the other stories either. A tale of a childless couple trying to conceive failed to interest me. A village on the brink of a flood to creat a dam was interesting, had it not been for the style. The final story, of a woman hallucinating images of her experience in the Holocaust could have been very moving, but it skipped about so much in time it lost me, and the same disjointed style had just about driven me nuts by then anyway. So great opening tale, but I really didn't care for the rest!
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Memory Wall is a collection of short stories by a writer who won the Sunday Times Short Story Competition. I live some considerable distance from any bookshop which might be likely to stock a seminal work of this kind, so Amazon is a kind of lifeline for people like me who live in the sticks. The book arrived on time and in perfect condition. The inly book I had previously bought via Amazon was a second hand copy of my own novel CUDDON RETURN. The condition of which was also very satisfactory. It has been out of print for some time so I would have had a problem chasing it. So now, having tested the service, I have found a source which I can use with confidence. Thius not to say I wont visit bookshops when I get the opportunity; just that it is another plus.
John Finch.
John Finch.
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