All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.

Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

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About The Author

Anthony Doerr is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a National Book Award finalist. His other works include Memory Wall, The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. Doerr has received five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Story Prize, and more. Born in Cleveland, he lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 4, 2017
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501173219
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501173219
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 7.91 x 1.18 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Military Historical Fiction #16 in War Fiction (Books) #52 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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