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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Scribner
August 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
545 pages
ISBN: 1476746583
EAN: 9781476746586
Kindle: B00DPM7TIG
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Literature and Fiction | Historical
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony
Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New
York Times bestseller 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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