The Shell Collector
Nature stories
Metamorphosis
Short stories, american
American Short stories
Grief
Ficción
Survival
Fiction, short stories (single author)
Nature
Interpersonal relations
New York Times reviewed
Fiction
“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.
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