About Grace

Resumen del libro

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 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 (exactly as he already dreamed) 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!

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Anthony Doerrx{0026}lt;/B es autor de los libros de relatos x{0026}lt;I Memory Wallx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The Shell Collectorx{0026}lt;/I , las memorias x{0026}lt;I Four Seasons in Romex{0026}lt;/I y las novelas x{0026}lt;I Sobre Gracex{0026}lt;/I (Suma de Letras, 2016) y x{0026}lt;I La luz que no puedes verx{0026}lt;/I (Suma de Letras, 2015). Esta última ha sido finalista del National Book Award y ganadora del Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2015, y se ha convertido en un x{0026}lt;I bestsellerx{0026}lt;/I en todo el mundo, consiguiendo extraordinarias críticas. Las obras de Doerr han logrado numerosos premios más, entre ellos cuatro O. Henry Prizes, el Barnes x{0026}amp; Noble Discover Prize, el Rome Prize, el New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, el National Magazine Award for Fiction, tres Pushcart Prizes, dos Pacific Northwest Book Awards, tres Ohioana Book Awards, el 2010 Story Prize, considerado el más prestigioso premio de Estados Unidos para un libro de relatos, y el Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, el mayor premio del mundo concedido a un único relato. En 2007, la revista literaria británica x{0026}lt;I Granta x{0026}lt;/I incluyó a Doerr en su lista de Los 21 mejores novelistas estadounidenses . Vive en Boise, Idaho, con su mujer y sus dos hijos.x{0026}lt;/P