An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller 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 in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

La novela premiada es un intenso thriller psicológico protagonizado y relatado en primera persona por Raquel, una joven profesora de literatura en horas bajas que acepta una suplencia en un instituto de Novariz, el pueblo de donde, casualmente, procede su marido.En su primer día de trabajo, la joven se entera de que Elvira, su predecesora, se ha suicidado y al finalizar las clases encuentra en su bolso una nota que dice: «¿Y tú cuánto vas a tardar en matarte?».Decidida, Raquel intentará averiguar quién está detrás de esa amenaza, e inevitablemente se empezará a obsesionar con la antigua profesora.¿Qué le ocurrió? ¿Qué la llevó a la depresión si los alumnos la adoraban? ¿Realmente se suicidó o alguien acabó con su vida? ¿Se está repitiendo el mismo patrón con ella? Y sobre todo, ¿por qué de repente algunos indicios apuntan al marido de Raquel?Una novela que arranca como una historia de acoso a una profesora para convertirse enseguida en un thriller perverso y apasionante. Una disección de la debilidad humana. De la culpa. De la fragilidad de las relaciones. Y de las mentiras y secretos sobre las que montamos nuestras vidas sin calibrar ni ser conscientes de las consecuencias.

A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them. M. L. Stedman's mesmerizing, beautifully written debut novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel's decision to keep this "gift from God." And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another's tragic loss.

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."

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