MEMORY WALL

From the author of All The Light We Cannot See | a collection of stories about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives | the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.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.