English Summary/英文概要： From an award-winning and extraordinarily eloquent author whose "prose dazzles" (The New York Times Book Review) comes a second stunning collection.

Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr’s new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world.

In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman’s secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O’Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson.

Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr’s language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 每天在世界上的各個角落，都有難以數計的記憶在消失…與此同時，孩子們正探索著這塊對他們來說完全陌生新奇的土地，據此構織出新的記憶。
正是這股新生的力量讓黑暗褪去，重新改造了世界。
朵爾這本短篇故事集中的每個故事圍繞著「記憶」，包含抵抗記憶的失去，與記憶所帶來的負累與沉重。
Memory Hall….南非一個年輕男孩掌握了一個老女人的秘密，這個來自過去的秘密將對某個人擁有救贖的力量。
The River Nemunas…ㄧ個孤兒從坎薩斯搬到立陶宛和祖父同住，在那裡他發現神話成真的世界.
Village 113…三峽大壩的興建與一個即將遭淹滅的村落歷史
Afterworld…逃離大屠殺的女人被兒時好友的幻象所擾，最後是她孫兒的守伴拯救了她..(Kate Cheng)

Awards//获奖情况： ★ 亞馬遜七月選書
★ 美國圖書館協會選書、紐約時報注目書籍、華盛頓郵報年度選書得主新作
★ 波士頓環球報：「很少有作家可以讓我們用新的視角看世界。但這本書的每ㄧ頁都做到了…」

Review
“Memory Wall not only captivates from start to finish, it is the kind of book likely to restore your faith in the pleasures of storytelling…. It’s rare to encounter a writer who is able to make us see the world around us in new ways. And yet Doerr does so on every page.”---Boston Globe

"It’s fair to say that Anthony Doerr is doing things with the short story that have rarely been attempted and seldom achieved. The stories in Memory Wall have such scope and depth that they hit as hard as novels three times their length. Doerr has set a new standard, I think, for what a story can do."---Dave Eggers, author of Zeitoun and What Is the What

“When I finished the last page of Anthony Doerr’s Memory Wall, I sat stunned and blinking, unable to leave the strange and vivid and utterly believable world he’d created. Read this book—it will change how you think about memory, time, love, and the way we record and try to keep the things we can’t live without.”---Maile Meloy, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

“Everywhere in Tony Doerr’s work, there’s light and stone and unimaginable distance, while our hearts go on about their steady work. His subject is what we would hear on the most macrocosmic and intimate levels, if only we were to listen more closely. I love Memory Wall for the empathetic reach of its imagination, for the intelligence of its meditation on the consolations of memory, and especially for the tenderness and care with which it presents the ongoing miracle of humanity’s daily interaction with the world. These are beautiful and moving stories.”---Jim Shepard, author of Like You’d Understand, Anyway

“Beautiful passages and vivid imagery . . . Readers hungry for unconventional narratives and lovers of fine writing will find much to savor in this impressive collection.”---Booklist

Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: Books made of linked stories, like recent award-winning favorites Olive Kitteridge and Let the Great World Spin, are usually connected by shared places and people. The tender and lyrical stories in Anthony Doerr’s Memory Wall are linked no less strongly, but, as if Oliver Sacks had turned to fiction, by a neurological theme. Set as far apart as South Africa and the Korean DMZ, Doerr’s stories circle around the central pull of memory, both the struggle against memory’s loss and the weight of memories that remain. In the long and brilliantly intricate title story, as memories fade from an aging white woman in suburban Cape Town, they are stored for her (and for anyone else with compatible ports installed in their head) in replayable cartridges. In the final story, "Afterworld," girls from a Jewish orphanage who were murdered by Nazis survive decades later as ghosts in the visionary epileptic seizures of the one girl who survived them. If memories in these tales are like the Yangtze River town in "Village 113," threatened with the forced forgetfulness of a man-made flood, they are also like the legendary sturgeon in "The River Nemunas," which surfaces with an ancient, armor-covered dignity years after it was thought to have vanished.---Tom Nissley