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Davidin uni de Anthony Doerr
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Davidin uni (edició 2016)

de Anthony Doerr, Hanna Tarkka (K©Þ©ÞNt©ÞJ©Þ.)

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happenâ??a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.

On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.

Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplish
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David Winkler has life threatening dreams and was trying to save his baby daughter Grace from drowning. He fled to change the circumstances, only to return 25 years later to find her mother Sandy had died and he had a grandson
  merrynuk | Aug 16, 2023 |
Odd but intriguing tale, beautifully written and well told about exile and home coming . Quite a long book to listen too, but it keeps you engaged if not excited. ( )
  jvgravy | Jul 12, 2022 |
A very touching book. Very sad in many places. The kind of book that makes you think you've really experienced something, and yet there's probably more beneath the surface that you didn't grasp, more layers of meaning. I really like this guy's prose. ( )
  MarkLacy | May 29, 2022 |
A stunning novel about family, love, physical and mental health, the environment, and discovery. Doerr has created a phenomenal character with David Winkler who is transformed after dreaming a premonition about a traumatic accident which occurs shortly after. He takes these dream premonitions very seriously, focusing on them in a way that causes his behavior to become bizarre.

A naturally quiet, gentle man he is fey, and sees and senses incredible details of the physical world around him whether it is a rain drop, or a snow flake, or a leaf, or a footstep, etc. Despite his periodic strange actions, and his inability to articulate his thoughts and feelings clearly, there are many kind and caring people around him. They take the time to speak with him and get to know him, and get a sense of his beautiful inner soul. His mother understood and loved him deeply and inspired him.

I believe that the most dramatic life-changing action he took happened because someone who should have understood him did not. If her behavior had been loving and supportive instead of critical and sharp, he would not have experienced a terrifying premonition so deeply. He possibly would not have left his home and family in Ohio.

But he does ends up in the Caribbean, spending the next 25 years finding himself. Hiding from the terror of his premonition, and very slowly healing with help from Soma, Felix and their children.

When the next awful premonition comes, he tries warning people but they don't fully understand him. He realizes its up to him to act and prevent a tragedy. And once again this event is life-changing but in a much more positive way.

So much feeling, love, kindness, soul, science, learning in David and in this gorgeous book.

(Re-reading my review of Doerr's All the Light We Cannot Sea, I realized how similar David and Frederick are. Both having brilliant minds above the superficiality of the world because they see so much deeper. )
  Bookish59 | Dec 22, 2021 |
I can see why readers might not compare this well with his second. But I would say, stick with it. ( )
  adrianburke | Oct 11, 2021 |
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About Grace is about David Winkler, a man crippled and made fearful by the accuracy of his dreamed premonitions — a man who foresees future events and who is then constrained to watch them unfold.
afegit per stephmo | editaThe Spectator (Jan 29, 2005)
 
Wouldn't it be useful to see the future when making choices about finance, marriage or the job market? But David Winkler, a meteorologist from Alaska, is completely crippled by his prophetic dreams.
afegit per stephmo | editaThe Guardian, Rachel Hore (Jan 1, 2005)
 
In his first novel, ''About Grace,'' Anthony Doerr drags his protagonist, David Winkler, over a fair few hot coals: 25 years of exile as a dogsbody in a new hotel in St. Vincent in the Caribbean, a near-drowning experience, malnutrition, a clinically debilitating journey in a clapped-out Datsun across the vastness of America, an Alaskan winter in an unheated shed, gradual loss of eyesight, an alienated daughter he abandoned when she was a few months old. The comparisons with Lear are flickering and fugitive but inevitable.
afegit per stephmo | editaNew York Times, Neel Mukherjee (Nov 7, 2004)
 
In his intriguing but ultimately disappointing first novel, Anthony Doerr gives us David Winkler, an otherwise ordinary man whose dreams literally come true. When he dreams that a man carrying a hatbox will be struck and killed by a bus at a nearby intersection, it comes to pass just as he imagined. When he dreams that a woman wearing polyester pants will drop a magazine at the Snow Goose Market, she drops it -- and he falls in love.
 
David Winkler, the 59-year-old protagonist of Anthony Doerr's debut novel, About Grace, is a dreamer but not, alas, of the carefree, California kind. Instead Winkler is a modern-day Cassandra who dreams about future events -- some momentous, some trivial -- and when he tries to warn people, he meets, for the most part, with incredulity and skepticism.
 
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees things before they happenâ??a man carrying a hatbox will be hit by a bus; Winkler will fall in love with a woman in a supermarket. When David dreams that his infant daughter will drown in a flood as he tries to save her, he comes undone. He travels thousands of miles, fleeing family, home, and the future itself, to deny the dream.

On a Caribbean island, destitute, alone, and unsure if his child has survived or his wife can forgive him, David is sheltered by a couple with a daughter of their own. Ultimately it is she who will pull him back into the world, to search for the people he left behind.

Doerr's characters are full of grief and longing, but also replete with grace. His compassion for human frailty is extraordinarily moving. In luminous prose, he writes about the power and beauty of nature and about the tiny miracles that transform our lives. About Grace is heartbreaking, radiant, and astonishingly accomplish

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