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Original Title: | All the Light We Cannot See |
ISBN: | 1476746583 (ISBN13: 9781476746586) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Werner Pfennig, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, Frank Volkheimer, Etienne LeBlanc, Frederick (All the Light We Cannot See), Jutta Pfennig, Madame Manec, Reinhold von Rumpel, Frau Elena, Daniel LeBlanc, Dr. Hauptmann, Walter Bernd, Bastian |
Setting: | Paris(France) Zollverein(Germany) Evreux(France) …more Saint-Malo(France) Essen(Germany) Berlin(Germany) Schulpforte(Germany) Vienna(Austria) Épernay(France) Nuremberg(Germany) …less |
Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2015), Audie Award for Fiction (2015), ALA Alex Award (2015), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2015), Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (2015) Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for International Book (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction (2015), Idaho Book of the Year Award (2014), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2014), Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction (2014) and Nominee for Best of the Best (2018), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016) |
Anthony Doerr
Hardcover | Pages: 531 pages Rating: 4.33 | 919899 Users | 71461 Reviews
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An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful 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 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.
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Title | : | All the Light We Cannot See |
Author | : | Anthony Doerr |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 531 pages |
Published | : | May 6th 2014 by Scribner (first published May 2014) |
Categories | : | Classics. Fantasy. Fiction. Childrens. Young Adult. Adventure. Literature |
Rating Containing Books All the Light We Cannot See
Ratings: 4.33 From 919899 Users | 71461 ReviewsCrit Containing Books All the Light We Cannot See
Agree 100%. Im two-thirds of the way through this book, and your review has summed up exactly how Im feeling about it so far.So, I know I should be oohing and ahhing over this book, but it just wasn't for me. This is definitely one of those "it's not you, it's me" moments. I can see why many people have given such glowing reviews, but I found it to be unbearably dull and slow-moving. I never felt a strong connection with either of the main characters or the story itself. I'm just glad that it ended.
This is a carefully constructed book which is bound to captivate a large audience and become very popular, and be blessed with many warm reviews - it was chosen by Goodreads members as the best historical fiction of 2014, and shortlisted for the National Book Award. There are multiple reasons for its success - but they are also the same reasons as to why I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would.Anthony Doerr's All The Light We Cannot See follows the parallel lives of two protagonists -

What I loved most about this book was all the light that I did see. There is so much here that captivated me - from the beautiful writing to the strong, caring characters to the loving relationships and the way people touched each other's lives during the trying times of WW II.Parallel stories are told in alternating chapters of Marie Laure, a teenage French girl who has been blind since the age of six and Werner, an intelligent, perceptive and sensitive German orphan who learns to fix radios
I think that my opinion of this book does not match the general opinion.I was pretty bored throughout and my mind kept wandering. I kept waiting for a big payoff, plot twist, that would bring my attention crashing back. I thought there might be some grand resolution beyond the symbolism and poetry of the writing, and there really didn't seem to be. Maybe I missed it while my mind was wandering.Two other things - I have been encountering these a lot lately:- WWII is now definitely entrenched as a
Great review! Thank you
This book was so beautiful and haunting. I fell in love with so many of the characters, and loved how their lives were weaved together. Knowing the time period this was set in, I knew the ending would hurt. And it did, though I didn't shed as many tears as I expected.The writing was incredible, the descriptions so vivid. It did a superb job of showing the reader how the characters felt through their actions, rather than telling. Whilst the short chapters (on average 1.5 pages) helped to make
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