All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr · 2014
Buy on AmazonFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel 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 within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane.…
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"The stories of blind, French teenager Marie-Laure LeBlanc and German orphan Werner Pfennig move across the convulsing landscape of the last half of World War II and come together, eventually, in a walled Breton town just before D-Day. All the Light We Cannot See has received rapturous reviews, and none of them exaggerate when they describe Anthony Doerr’s novel with words like “haunting,” “beautifully written” and “gorgeous.” It is all that and more. Doerr’s characters stayed with me long after I closed the cover of this luminous book."
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