The showstopping debut from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
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 clandesitne 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.
| ISBN: | 9780007146987 |
| Publication date: | 17th November 2016 |
| Author: | Anthony Doerr |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 218 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Molluscs (malacology) Zoology: marine and freshwater mammals Sea life and the seashore: general interest Marine biology The Earth: natural history: general interest Travel writing Popular Science |