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
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.