The Shell Collector

Anthony Doerr

About this book

“The Shell Collector” (2002), a short story by American author Anthony Doerr, tells the story of a blind shell expert living in exile with his dog in Kenya who becomes something of a celebrity after he uses deadly cone venom to cure a local eight-year-old girl of Malaria.

Subjects

  • american short stories
  • cuentos sobre la naturaleza
  • ficcion
  • fiction
  • fiction, short stories (single author)
  • grief
  • interpersonal relations
  • metamorphosis
  • nature
  • nature stories
  • new york times reviewed
  • short stories, american
  • survival