All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

paperback, 544 pages

English language

Published April 4, 2017 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-1-5011-7321-9
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5 stars (3 reviews)

From 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. 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 …

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Two young people arrive by very different paths in Saint Malo to take possession of their lives. The writing is vivid, the story well researched and believable, but this book mostly succeeds (for me) because of its deep characterization. I love the questions posed by Werner about morality and his final choices. Marie-Laure is someone who is resilient enough to face loss and find the strength to avenge it.

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