TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doerr,Anthony 
TI  - SHELL COLLECTOR 
SN  - 9780007146987
U1  - FC 
PY  - 2002////01/01
CY  - Londom
PB  - 4th estate-HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Fiction Collection
KW  - Nature stories
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Metamorphosis
KW  - Interpersonal relations
N1  - The showstopping debut from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE 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 clandesitne 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
ER  -