Anthony Doerr

Doerr's short story concerns the building of China's Three Gorges Dam and the inhabitants of one of the villages to be flooded during its construction. As the village's last days fade from history, the seed keeper exhibits a reluctance to leave, even at her son's persistent goading.

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...

Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.