Anthony Doerr
About Grace

2005 |

Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exac…t replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach. Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees. He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out... Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams. At nine, he dreams a man is decapi…tated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home. The next day, unable to prevent it, he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life. The premonitions keep coming, unstoppably. He sleepwalks during them, bringing catastrophe into his reach. Then, as unstoppable as a vision, he falls in love, at the supermarket with Sandy. They flee south, landing in Ohio, where their daughter Grace is born. And then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler, as their waterside home is inundated. Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning, when the floods come, he cannot face his destiny and flees. He beaches on a remote Caribbean island, where he works as a handyman, chipping away at his doubts and hopes, never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold. After two decades, he musters the strength to find out...

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O knize

Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	406
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	000714699X
ISBN:	9780007146994
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	13. 5. 2026 14:56
Číslo položky:	1742634

O autorovi

Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr je americký spisovatel a držitel Pulitzerovy ceny za román Jsou světla, která nevidíme, česky vydaný v roce 2015. Spisovatel se narodil v Novelty ve státě Ohio. Následně vystudoval nedalekou University School a roku 1995 odpromoval v oboru historie na Bowdoin College v Brunswicku, Maine. V současnosti žije s manželkou a dvěma syny ve městě Boise, Idaho. Jeho prvotinou byla sbírka novel s názvem The Shell Collector , která byla v České republice vydaná roku 2016 pod názvem Sběratel mušlí. Mnoho příběhů z knihy se odehrává v Africe a na Novém Zélandu, kde Doerr dříve pracoval a žil. Jeho další sbírku povídek představuje Memory Wall z roku 2010, česky vydaná roku 2016 pod názvem Zeď vzpomínek. Dále také napsal v roce 2004 román About Grace a v roce 2007 memoáry Four Seasons in Rome. Děj jeho druhého románu Jsou světla, která nevidíme je zasazen do Francie okupované za 2. světové války. Kniha sklidila velmi dobré kritiky i velký ohlas mezi čtenáři. Dostala se do finále prestižního udílení cen National Book Award for Fiction v USA, vyšvihla se do žebříčku bestsellerů The New York Times a vyhrála Pulitzerovu cenu za rok 2015. V současné době Doerr mimo jiné píše sloupek pro deník The Boston Globe a přispívá do The Morning News, on-line magazínu ve Spojených státech. V tomto článku byl použit překlad textu z článku Anthony Doerr na anglické Wikipedii.

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