Anthony Doerr's meticulously crafted and eminently humane works of fiction are revered as among the most affecting-and important-works of our time. The winner of an O. Henry Prize, "Village 113" concerns the building of China's Three Gorges Dam and the inhabitants of one of the villages to be flooded during its construction. As the village's last days fade from history, the seed keeper exhibits a reluctance to leave, even at her son's persistent goading.