THE SHELL COLLECTOR is a heartwarming tale about a blind man who on a verge of losing his eyesight develops the love for smooth and delicate shells on the beach of Florida. He then decides to devote his entire life to searching and studying various kinds of shells all around the world, becoming thus one of the wisest men in the field.

Directed by Yoshifumi Tsubota. With Masahiro Arakaki, Lily Franky, Akira Fukuhara, Ai Hashimoto. A blind conchologist who lives ion the island of Okinawa, Japan cures a rare disease afflicting Izumi who has washed up on the shore. having cured a rare disease through coincidence he is nonetheless besieged by numerous others who are looking to him for the treatment of their own ails.

The Shell Collector is unforgettable—not so much a book of short stories as a book of short myths.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Read more About the Author

The shell collector tells the story of a NY Times He told complicated stories of a far future that we can deflect as being truly fiction. In the shell collector, Howey tells a less dramatic yet much more disturbing tale of a not so distant future.

The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr's first collection of stories, ranges from Liberia and Tanzania to Montana and Maine. Traversing the vast terrain of the world, Doerr shows an extraordinary empathy in stories that most often concern themselves with the interaction between humans and nature.

The Shell Collector is a beautiful collection of stories. Author Anthony Doerr provides simplistic orriginality and everyday romanticism of words in each of his literary works. Positivley unforgetable

The Shell Collector is an alternatively hopeful and grim examination of the randomness of nature—the randomness that took away the protagonist’s sight and took his son away from him, but that also cured Nancy and Seema of a devastating illness.

Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About...

This striking debut collection of eight stories offers several boldly imagined and scrupulously detailed explorations of the mysteries inherent in both the natural world and human interconnection.