Shell Collector

Shell Collector
Authors
Doerr, Anthony
Publisher
4th Estate
Tags
contemporary
ISBN
9780007146987
Date
2001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.35 MB
Lang
en
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A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal’s mind by touching its freshly dead body. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandestine act of burying the hearts of beached whales.

In *The Shell Collector* Antony Doerr illuminates both the riotous dangers of the natural world and the rocky terrain of the human heart.