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*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award Finalist*

From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, 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.

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Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. 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, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, 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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“Mesmerizing… Exquisite… The written equivalent of a Botticelli or a Michelangelo.” –The Portland Oregonian

“Stunning… Uplifting… Not to be missed.” –Entertainment Weekly

“Hauntingly beautiful.” –The New York Times

“Each and every person in this finely spun assemblage is distinct and true.” –USA Today

“Intertwines secret radio broadcasts, a cursed diamond, a soldier’s deepest doubts into a richly compelling package… Irresistible.” –People

“Gorgeous… Moves with the pace of a thriller.” –San Francisco Chronicle

“Enthrallingly told, beautifully written.” —Amanda Vaill, The Washington Post

“Dazzling . . . Startlingly fresh.” —John Freeman, The Boston Globe

“Intricate . . . A meditation on fate, free will, and the way that, in wartime, small choices can have vast consequences.” —The New Yorker

“Brims with scrupulous reverence for all forms of life. The invisible light of the title shines long after the last page.” —Tricia Springstubb, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Anthony Doerr writes beautifully. . . . A tour de force.” —Elizabeth Reid, Deseret News

“Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.” —Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

“Perfectly captured . . . Doerr writes sentences that are clear-eyed, taut, sweetly lyrical.” —Josh Cook, Minneapolis StarTribune

“A beautiful, expansive tale . . . Ambitious and majestic.” —Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times

“Doerr is an exquisite stylist; his talents are on full display.” —Alan Cheuse, NPR

“The craftsmanship of Doerr’s book is rooted in his ability to inhabit the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner.” —Steve Novak, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Doerr deftly guides All the Light We Cannot See toward the day Werner’s and Marie-Laure’s lives intersect during the bombing of Saint-Malo in what may be his best work to date.” —Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor

“To open a book by Anthony Doerr is to open a door on humanity. . . . His sentences shimmer. . . . His paragraphs are luminous with bright, sparkling beauty.” —Martha Anne Toll, Washington Independent Review of Books

“Endlessly bold and equally delicate . . . An intricate miracle of invention, narrative verve, and deep research lightly held, but above all a miracle of humanity . . . Anthony Doerr’s novel celebrates—and also accomplishes—what only the finest art can: the power to create, reveal, and augment experience in all its horror and wonder, heartbreak and rapture.” —Shelf Awareness

“Intricately structured . . . All the Light We Cannot See is a work of art and of preservation.” —Jane Ciabattari, BBC

“Magnificent.” —Carmen Callil, The Guardian (UK)

“The whole enthralls.” —Good Housekeeping

“A revelation.” —Michael Magras, Bookreporter.com

“Doerr conjures up a vibrating, crackling world. . . . Intricately, beautifully crafted.” —Rebecca Kelley, Bustle.com

“There is so much in this book. It is difficult to convey the complexity, the detail, the beauty, and the brutality of this simple story.” —Carole O’Brien, Aspen Daily News

“Beautifully written . . . Soulful and addictive.” —Chris Stuckenschneider, The Missourian

“A novel to live in, learn from, and feel bereft over when the last page is turned, Doerr’s magnificently drawn story seems at once spacious and tightly composed. . . . Doerr masterfully and knowledgeably re-creates the deprived civilian conditions of war-torn France and the strictly controlled lives of the military occupiers.” —Booklist (starred review)

“Doerr captures the sights and sounds of wartime and focuses, refreshingly, on the innate goodness of his major characters.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“If a book’s success can be measured by its ability to move readers and the number of memorable characters it has, Story Prize–winner Doerr’s novel triumphs on both counts. Along the way, he convinces readers that new stories can still be told about this well-trod period, and that war—despite its desperation, cruelty, and harrowing moral choices—cannot negate the pleasures of the world.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This novel has the physical and emotional heft of a masterpiece. . . . It presents two characters so interesting and sympathetic that readers will keep turning the pages hoping for an impossibly happy ending. . . . Highly recommended for fans of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.” —Evelyn Beck, Library Journal (starred review)

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Anthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner; Reprint edition (April 4 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501173219
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501173219
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 472 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.34 x 3.3 x 20.32 cm

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Anthony Doerr has won numerous prizes for his fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal. His novel, 'All the Light We Cannot See,' was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and his new novel, 'Cloud Cuckoo Land,' published in September of 2021, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Learn more at www.anthonydoerr.com.

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Tamiko A Charlton

All The Light We Cannot See Book Review 4.5/5

Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2019

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“All The Light We Cannot See” gets a lot of attention for its unique story and its beautiful writing. It starts late in World War II, as the Allies begin to bomb the French city of Saint-Malo to drive out the remaining Nazi troops. Our two main characters are Marie Laure, a blind French girl who fled here with her father from Paris, and Werner, a radio expert in the German army who is stuck in the city when the attack begins.
From the first pages, we know that the city of Saint-Malo is going to be bombed in August of 1944, where Marie-Laure and Werner are both there and in serious danger. Then the story switches a few years before the bombing and we really get to connect with the characters. We get to see what life was like at an intense German prep school with all of the bullying and Nazi propaganda. I personally connected with the German boy, Werner, but both of these characters have appealing natures and it's impossible not to connect with them. Finally, there's the suspense of the Nazi treasure hunter trying to track down the diamond, which led to some very intense conflicts.
Doerr used the popular technique of alternating perspectives and chapters to keep the story moving along. The chapters were short, which also helped quicken the pace. So in one scene we'll be following a German soldier in 1944, in the next we'll be with a blind girl who is helping the French Resistance, and a few pages later we could be with a Nazi sergeant who is on a treasure hunt for a rare and valuable diamond. Doerr also created some impressive flashbacks to the 1930s that built up to the main event of the book.
I was so amazed with the way that the author was able to heighten all my senses in a way that I felt like I knew what it was like to be blind. In most well-written books you get of a sense of what the characters look like and follow them throughout the book almost as if you are on a trip with that character, but with this novel, I could imagine what it was like to be in character's shoes. The descriptives were so beautifully intricate that I could almost
imagine the atmosphere through touch and sound.
The only problem with this book is that the ending keeps going for quite a while. I think that the end goes too long. It is still well written, but there could have been so many better places to end the book. All in All, this book was amazing in its writing, but I am giving it a 4.5/5, just because the book took so long to end.

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Lisa Adams

Hauntingly Beautiful

Reviewed in Canada on January 27, 2016

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Marie-Laure is a young blind girl living in Paris with her locksmith father. When the Nazis invade, they must escape to the small town of Saint-Malo, carrying with them (unknown to Marie-Laure) the most valuable jewel in the country. Unfortunately, a Nazi officer is also on the trail of this jewel. Werner is a German orphan from an impoverished mining town chosen to attend a facility for Hitler youth. He is wholly motivated by his love for science, but once he is employed by the Nazis to ferret out members of the resistance, he is confronted with the human cost of the science he has produced.

Wow. Just wow. This is the most beautiful piece of literature I have read in a very long time. The first thing to strike me was the language - it's visual, it's tactile, it's aural. It's a feast for all of the senses. I slipped into Marie-Laure's world, and Werner's, and never wanted to leave.

The two storylines twine around each other, skillfully drawing nearer and nearer. When Marie-Laure and Werner finally do meet it is refreshingly different from the usual trite love story. The imperfections make it beautiful and haunting.

This story will stay with me for a very long time.

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Gael

I tried to love this book

Reviewed in Canada on February 12, 2021

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It sounded wonderful in the write up....but alas....I struggled to 60% and could not get any further. The story of the 2 people were interesting to start, but just never concluded anything. At 60 % they still had not encountered each other and...well..I just couldn’t drag on any further....
Maybe someone else had the perseverance but too much work for me. Quite disappointing.

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One of the best book this year,

Reviewed in Canada on July 31, 2021

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This book is so good ,that have a lost of words to described it. The light we don't see, its title state ,is the courage, creativity and undeniable courage one can find to go through life. I strongly recommend to read this book. After you have read this story , some of the main characters might stay with you ,,,,,

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Sverre Svendsen

Poetic realism

Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2016

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Doerr has written a masterpiece of a wartime novel. The rave reviews are well deserved. Realism rather than romanticism wins out in the end—which will disappoint many readers—but gives intellectual and historical weight to the author’s artistic earnestness.

The short chapters (some of them miniscule) make the book easy to read but dividing it into sections back in time and then forward in time can be disorienting. Sometimes I found it necessary to look back to the beginning of the section and even the previous section to place events in their proper timeline. But that literary device also increased my curiosity about “why and how” events unfolded as they did, increasing the suspense.

Readers can easily find themselves being mentally and emotionally caught up with what the two main characters, the German boy Werner and the French girl Marie-Laure, have to endure. It is a cruel world but they are determined to survive even when conditions get worse and worse. Yes, I got caught up in their agony. Having read many WW2 novels, biographies and historical works, I found it alleviating that the horrible plight of the Jews was kept out of this storyline.

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Cheryl Schenk

Exceptional!

Reviewed in Canada on July 1, 2020

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WOW! There are not enough words in the English language to sing this book’s praises. At my mature age, I’ve heard and read many things about WWII. Never have I read from the POV of young people. Never have I been confronted by so much of what happened in so many places outside the concentration camps. This book has compelling characters and stories, and horrors told from both sides in that terrible war. I was captivated from the first word until the final word. BRAVO to this author.

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Spies

A powerful romance novel

Reviewed in Canada on April 15, 2022

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What a powerful, beautifully written novel. I'm a guy and I almost cried when the two main characters met for one short chapter. My only issue with the book was the esoteric vocabulary used by the author. I had to Google a lot of words. For example, on page 112, the author uses the work shuck to describe the students at Werner's school changing their everyday clothing to school their school uniforms.

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Lady Vibart

A page turning, brilliantly sensitive story of courage, love and the cruelty of war, studded with characters we all recognise!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2018

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I came across this novel accidentally and it's one of the most moving and exciting I've read for a long time. The story is set in WW2 Europe, mainly France and Germany but also Russia etc. It tells the story of a young girl, Marie Laure who went blind as a child and lives in Paris with her father, Daniel Leblanc, a gifted locksmith and miniaturist who works at a prestigious museum as keeper of the keys, and makes models of the city and its streets to teach his daughter how to find her way around the city. They live for each other. At the same time, we meet little Werner Pffenig, and orphan who lives in an orphanage in Germany with his sister, Jutta, under the maternal eye of Elena, the French matron. They listen to broadcasts in French that speak of the earth’s wonders, of brilliant birds, flowers and stars , on a recycled radio that Werner has managed to assemble from street detritus. That is his great skill, working with all things electrical, especially radio transmitters. His future is mapped out for him, he will be sent down the mines to help the Fatherland, the Fuhrer, etc - the same mines that killed his father. But life had other plans for him. The story weaves backwards and forwards with a rich caste of characters both simple and complex, evil or kind, - there are greedy traitors, cruel psychopaths, heroes and heroines on both sides all told with detail that makes the scenes come alive. Does the silken voiced broadcaster really live in a house with 1,000 rooms? And how is he linked to The Whelk? Who is the giant Werner meets at training school who terrifies all the boys by his presence? What must Marie Laura find in ‘the house ‘ at Etienne’s - the last command her father gave her before he left for the museum? What have Captain Nemo and The young girl broadcasting on a forbidden radio have to do with the psychotic Nazi hunting relentlessly for a priceless treasure as his life ebbs away? So many questions all slowly and gradually linking up. The suspense is heightened - then comes the calm only to be jerked back onto a knife edge! We witness mindless cruelty and incredible kindness and love, and as the bombs blitz Paris under German control, then St. Malo as the Allies close in, the different threads, the pathos, the horror and yet courage, hope and survival, sometimes purely physical since minds have been lost, is so gripping, so moving I couldn't put the book down. You keep hoping that the various characters will be found - will return somehow, and the wounds, both physical and emotional will be able to heal. It's very sensively written, with characters that you feel you've shared sunny mornings and untold terrors with. A great novel to remind us all of the horror and inhumanity of war, and yet the indomitability and also the kindness that humans are capable of. A novel for baby boomers and millennials alike. Highly recommended.

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Chatterbox

Absolutely terrible!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2020

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There were only two hugely popular books that I had been disappointed in until now: Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and Atonement by Ian McEwan. I am afraid this book joins their company today! I have absolutely no idea what made it so popular and why this "masterpiece" won Pulitzer's Prize in 2015 but I really hate this book! The sad thing is that the writing is very good but the author's abysmal storytelling ruined it all for me!

The book is nearly 600 pages long. All made up of very short chapters of 2-3 pages long. Just as you start to get into the story, the next chapter takes you into a completely different time period without any warning or prelude! In places, the book unexpectedly introduces random new characters in a completely unconnected fashion (and only for one chapter of 2-3 pages!) before the story jumps again to the main characters in the following chapter.

I am not a stranger to difficult to read books or to stories made up of multiple strands and lifetimes of many characters across decades and sometimes even centuries of history but I hated this book!

The author's writing has been ruined by his inability to tell the story in a compelling way that would be coherent and enjoyable to read! Such a shame but this is one hugely disappointing read!

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Ashwini A.

An absolute must-read

Reviewed in India on May 16, 2018

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The language in the book is perhaps one of the most important bits, it is written with such rich and lively details that at times, I could almost see myself in places where Marie-Laure was or where Werner was. That was one of the most brilliant things about the book. There are many more. I think the fact that the author could transport me to that time period, make me as tense as Marie-Laure or Werner just makes me so happy?

Is happy a word to be used when talking about this book, this time period? Maybe not but the author did make me very happy. It’s very important to me that I feel connected to the characters and transported to places in the books and it did that and more.

The book jumps from time periods of Marie-Laure’s and Werner’s life, from their teen years to their younger years and back and forth. Sometimes it was a bit confusing to keep track of it, sometimes because it was an e-book, it was even frustrating to not be able to flip back to the pages I lost my thread. (An actual paperback really helps with this, it just gives me satisfaction if nothing else.)

Everything about the book made me fall in love with it. There are the usual World War II horrors and you can’t escape them, most times, I was so acutely uncomfortable with the scene but I moved ahead anyway. This book is an absolute must-read if you like reading about the World War II. Not because it’s super informative or because there’s tons of other things that could make you relate to the people of the times more. It’s more to understand how it felt for the children, for those who grew up in Germany and had to join Hitler’s army. For the children who had nobody left, those who couldn’t do much for themselves. Marie-Laure and Werner might be fictional but there were real people who were in their places at some point. They must have faced countless problems and horrors.

It is that feeling that makes me think that people should really read it.

I have a lot of wonderful things to say about it and I could say it but there’s also the one bit that I felt almost unnecessary in the book. Yes, the hunt for the Sea of Flames. The diamond. That part always felt unnecessary and almost tacked on as if it was an afterthought. I am not saying I didn’t enjoy the fantasy of it and there was a realistic part to it but at the same time, it just didn’t click with the rest of the book.

However that does not negate all the awesome things about this book and so, this remains a five-star book.

I would recommend it to anyone who loves to read World War II fiction or who wants to see how language can be elevated to this level. If you wanna read in leisure, you totally can!! This book, despite it being based during the World War II, has an almost unhurried pace to it. It’s just me who wouldn’t stop reading.

And if you still have any doubts about this book, it’s worth mentioning that it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. So, there’s that?

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Jason Cornelius

There's no doubt this is a fantastic book. Beautifully written

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2018

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Tough to review. There's no doubt this is a fantastic book. Beautifully written, palpable characters, fantastic backdrop. I can see why it's recieved so many accolades.
But all that said, I didn't find it enjoyable to read.
It took a while to figure out why. Even while reading it I'm thinking to myself "This is so good", but at the same time wondering why I'm bored and looking forward to the next book.
Finally I think I nailed it. Nothing really happens. It's all set in amongst the background of a lot happening, but other than hearing about it, there's not much that really goes on with the characters that so much time has been spent making us love.
This feels like all the parts of a fantastic book that happen BETWEEN the major plot points.
I spent the majority of this book waiting for something to happen, and when it doesn't it feels like there no payoff for the time invested in these characters.
Maybe this is what literary fiction is about. I can see why people may like it. It's life through the eyes of others.
But books are a form of entertainment. This wasn't entertaining to me, and I couldn't wait to start a new book.

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Kaffmatt

Thought Provoking Account Of The Occupation of France in WW2

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2018

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This evolved into a powerful account of the effects of WW2 on two innocent children during the occupation of France. I found the book difficult to ‘get into’ at the beginning. This was down to the author’s writing style, the short chapters and the rather confusing jumps backwards and forwards between the 1930s and 1944.
Marie Laure is an 11 yrs old blind girl, who is taken from Paris to St Malo, by her father for safety. Werner is an 11 yrs old German boy, who is a genius with technology i e old fashioned radios of the era. He attends an elite school for the German Ideal. Werner progresses to be an important part of discovering illegal radios used by the Resistance in the St Malo area.
Some very interesting facts are given and there’s obviously a lot going on; mostly about the sadness, hardship and devastating consequences of war. Paths cross along the way. Various plot threads interact. There are some heroic pleasing characters and equally some distasteful cruel individuals.
Would recommend but advise sticking with the unusual style.

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