Andraes Barba Boeken

Lord of the Flies meets Javier Marias, a dark and glinty literary gem with huge potential.

»Sollten Sie aus der großen Buchmessen-Ernte nur einen einzigen spanischen Roman lesen, es sollte dieser sein.« Paul Ingendaay, FAZ Andrés Barbas international gefeierter Roman ist eine mitreißende Geschichte über die drängenden moralischen Fragen unserer Zeit: die Angst vor dem Fremden, die Verletzlichkeit der Zivilisation und den schmalen Grat zwischen Vernunft und Paranoia. Dichter grüner Regenwald, tropische Trägheit: San Cristóbal ist eine verschlafene lateinamerikanische Provinzstadt, bis eines Tages wildfremde Kinder von der anderen Seite des schlammig-breiten Eré-Flusses dort einfallen und die Ruhe stören. Niemand kennt sie. Niemand weiß, woher sie kommen. Niemand versteht ihre Sprache. Sie haben Hunger, sie stehlen, sie jagen den Menschen Angst ein. Die Bewohner von San Cristóbal stehen zunehmend unter Druck: Wie lange wollen sie dem Ganzen tatenlos zusehen? Wie unschuldig sind Kinder? Darf man Böses mit Bösem vergelten?

"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work"-- Provided by publisher