Anthony Doerr
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ANTHONY DOERR is the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell
Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won
numerous prizes both in the United States and overseas, including four O. Henry Prizes,
three Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction
Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the
Story Prize. Raised in Cleveland, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
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In August 1944 the historic walled city of Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the
Emerald Coast of Brittany, France, was almost totally destroyed by fire. . . . Of the
865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remained standing and all were damaged
to some degree.
—Philip Beck
It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we
have without the radio.
—Jos eph Goebbels
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Table of Contents
Epigraph
Part Zero: 7 August 1944
Chapter 1: Leaflets
Chapter 2: Bombers
Chapter 3: The Girl
Chapter 4: The Boy
Chapter 5: Saint-Malo
Chapter 6: Number 4 rue Vauborel
Chapter 7: Cellar
Chapter 8: Bombs Away
Part One: 1934
Chapter 9: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Chapter 10: Zollverein
Chapter 11: Key Pound
Chapter 12: Radio
Chapter 13: Take Us Home
Chapter 14: Something Rising
Chapter 15: Light
Chapter 16: Our Flag Flutters Before Us
Chapter 17: Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 18: The Professor
Chapter 19: Sea of Flames
Chapter 20: Open Your Eyes
Chapter 21: Fade
Chapter 22: The Principles of Mechanics
Chapter 23: Rumors
Chapter 24: Bigger Faster Brighter
Chapter 25: Mark of the Beast
Chapter 26: Good Evening. Or Heil Hitler if You Prefer.
Chapter 27: Bye-bye, Blind Girl
Chapter 28: Making Socks
Chapter 29: Flight
Chapter 30: Herr Siedler
Chapter 31: Exodus
Part Two: 8 August 1944
Chapter 32: Saint-Malo
Chapter 33: Number 4 rue Vauborel
Chapter 34: Hotel of Bees
Chapter 35: Down Six Flights
Chapter 36: Trapped
Part Three: June 1940
Chapter 37: Château
Chapter 38: Entrance Exam
Chapter 39: Brittany
Chapter 40: Madame Manec
Chapter 41: You Have Been Called
Chapter 42: Occuper
Chapter 43: Don’t Tell Lies
Chapter 44: Etienne
Chapter 45: Jungmänner
Chapter 46: Vienna
Chapter 47: The Boches
Chapter 48: Hauptmann
Chapter 49: Flying Couch
Chapter 50: The Sum of Angles
Chapter 51: The Professor
Chapter 52: Perfumer
Chapter 53: Time of the Ostriches
Chapter 54: Weakest
Chapter 55: Mandatory Surrender
Chapter 56: Museum
Chapter 57: The Wardrobe
Chapter 58: Blackbirds
Chapter 59: Bath
Chapter 60: Weakest (#2)
Chapter 61: The Arrest of the Locksmith
Part Four: 8 August 1944
Chapter 62: The Fort of La Cité
Chapter 63: Atelier de Réparation
Chapter 64: Two Cans
Chapter 65: Number 4 rue Vauborel
Chapter 66: What They Have
Chapter 67: Trip Wire
Part Five: January 1941
Chapter 68: January Recess
Chapter 69: He Is Not Coming Back
Chapter 70: Prisoner
Chapter 71: Plage du Môle
Chapter 72: Lapidary
Chapter 73: Entropy
Chapter 74: The Rounds
Chapter 75: Nadel im Heuhaufen
Chapter 76: Proposal
Chapter 77: You Have Other Friends
Chapter 78: Old Ladies’ Resistance Club
Chapter 79: Diagnosis
Chapter 80: Weakest (#3)
Chapter 81: Grotto
Chapter 82: Intoxicated
Chapter 83: The Blade and the Whelk
Chapter 84: Alive Before You Die
Chapter 85: No Out
Chapter 86: The Disappearance of Harold Bazin
Chapter 87: Everything Poisoned
Chapter 88: Visitors
Chapter 89: The Frog Cooks
Chapter 90: Orders
Chapter 91: Pneumonia
Chapter 92: Treatments
Chapter 93: Heaven
Chapter 94: Frederick
Chapter 95: Relapse
Part Six: 8 August 1944
Chapter 96: Someone in the House
Chapter 97: The Death of Walter Bernd
Chapter 98: Sixth-floor Bedroom
Chapter 99: Making the Radio
Chapter 100: In the Attic
Part Seven: August 1942
Chapter 101: Prisoners
Chapter 102: The Wardrobe
Chapter 103: East
Chapter 104: One Ordinary Loaf
Chapter 105: Volkheimer
Chapter 106: Fall
Chapter 107: Sunflowers
Chapter 108: Stones
Chapter 109: Grotto
Chapter 110: Hunting
Chapter 111: The Messages
Chapter 112: Loudenvielle
Chapter 113: Gray
Chapter 114: Fever
Chapter 115: The Third Stone
Chapter 116: The Bridge
Chapter 117: Rue des Patriarches
Chapter 118: White City
Chapter 119: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Chapter 120: Telegram
Part Eight: 9 August 1944
Chapter 121: Fort National
Chapter 122: In the Attic
Chapter 123: The Heads
Chapter 124: Delirium
Chapter 125: Water
Chapter 126: The Beams
Chapter 127: The Transmitter
Chapter 128: Voice
Part Nine: May 1944
Chapter 129: Edge of the World
Chapter 130: Numbers
Chapter 131: May
Chapter 132: Hunting (Again)
Chapter 133: “Clair de Lune”
Chapter 134: Antenna
Chapter 135: Big Claude
Chapter 136: Boulangerie
Chapter 137: Grotto
Chapter 138: Agoraphobia
Chapter 139: Nothing
Chapter 140: Forty Minutes
Chapter 141: The Girl
Chapter 142: Little House
Chapter 143: Numbers
Chapter 144: Sea of Flames
Chapter 145: The Arrest of Etienne LeBlanc
Chapter 146: 7 August 1944
Chapter 147: Leaflets
Part Ten: 12 August 1944
Chapter 148: Entombed
Chapter 149: Fort National
Chapter 150: Captain Nemo’s Last Words
Chapter 151: Visitor
Chapter 152: Final Sentence
Chapter 153: Music #1
Chapter 154: Music #2
Chapter 155: Music #3
Chapter 156: Out
Chapter 157: Wardrobe
Chapter 158: Comrades
Chapter 159: The Simultaneity of Instants
Chapter 160: Are You There?
Chapter 161: Second Can
Chapter 162: Birds of America
Chapter 163: Cease-fire
Chapter 164: Chocolate
Chapter 165: Light
Part Eleven: 1945
Chapter 166: Berlin
Chapter 167: Paris
Part Twelve: 1974
Chapter 168: Volkheimer
Chapter 169: Jutta
Chapter 170: Duffel
Chapter 171: Saint-Malo
Chapter 172: Laboratory
Chapter 173: Visitor
Chapter 174: Paper Airplane
Chapter 175: The Key
Chapter 176: Sea of Flames
Chapter 177: Frederick
Part Thirteen: 2014
Chapter 178
Acknowledgments
About Anthony Doerr
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