All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
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16 Hours 2 Minutes
Simon & Schuster Audio
May 2014
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Winner of the Audie Award for Fiction
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*
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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Reviews
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Rebecca V
Beautiful writing that makes your heart ache for the characters.
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Virginia N
The narrative is so beautiful that it makes me want to read the book
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Heather L
This book was such an amazingly wound tale about the war from two very different view points. It gives a bit of insight into the Reich machine, as well as the brain washing that could occur amidst poor orphan children who had nothing to look forward to and nothing to lose.
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Gwen C
Truly an escape in time captured by great story telling. The narrator created the characters persona, highlighting the writers intended distinction and texture. The chapters drift into the crevices of history, love, art. A joy in the journey for the audience.
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Dawn Copley
This book is by far the most illuminating book I have read by far in such a incredibly long time ! This book reminded me about the millions of definitions for using the word " LIGHT " ! I am quite fond of that word now more so than when I was a bored and curious little girl in search of anything and everything to occupy my thoughts that were constantly driven by questions from the moment I awakened until I would finally collapse into a sleep and begin an active dream life along with the Man in the Moon , the stars , and the sheep and cows jumping around throughout the sky while the fairies were playing in the woodlands and streams and maybe in my room at night. Hopping out of bed , little Dawn , was just as the curious and bright Mara Laurie waking to excitement of noise and smells and sensations each day that taught her new emotions and knowledge to continue to live and prosper. . This lovely story was not just about the sadness of lives living among the horrific times of WWII with sadness in life all around . This book focused instead upon the Light inside each soul that lived each day to the fullest in their present and proudest trying to do the right things by what they felt was their purpose set forth before them as best they could see until they could not see the light pulling them in another direction again. No matter how hard we try to live our lives in our control , in the end only the Light of God for sure knows where we will be in the end .
I found this a lovely story that I know I will return to again to visit and learn from the rich experiences of such incredible creatures that were in this book during such hard times . They made the best of their lives with the gifts I do not think they realized they held inside .
Thank You Anthony Doerr,
Dawn Copley
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Sherry N.
Best book I have read or listened to, in awhile.
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Christina C.
One of the greatest novels of the last century-- an intricate plot-line, intimately realized characters, and language that is as lyrical, alliterative, and gorgeous as any poem. An astounding literary feat.
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Sabra G
I enjoyed it. The story's time-jumping does make it hard to follow, but also an interesting perspective.
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adam croce
Interesting, but not captivating. A story of a blind girl finding her way through war torn France. The writing is great, but wasn't a page turner.
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Allison Baboolal
Boring read. I had to go back multiple times because my mind would start to wander since it was not very interesting.