All the Light We Cannot See - Gift Edition

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious 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. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure''s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr''s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr 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 his most ambitious and dazzling work.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Doerr, Doerr Anthony
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9780008654313
• ISBN: 978-0-00-865431-3
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Europe, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Classics, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary