num_pages: 224
description: 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 clandestine 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.
language: English
title: The Shell Collector
titlecomplete: The Shell Collector
genres: Short Stories, Short Story Collection, Africa, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Nature, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 15117
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Ohioana Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Fourth Estate