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2015 | Fiction & Poetry | History & Politics
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, from the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr When Marie Laure goes blind, aged six, her father builds her a model of their Paris neighborhood, so she can memorize it with her fingers and then navigate the real streets. But 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, is enchanted by a crude radio. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent 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. 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.
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| Published by | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Edition | Unknown |
| ISBN | 9780008138301 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781476746609 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781476746586 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781501173219 |
| Language | English |
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The writing is so immersive, Marie- Laure's blindness allows for Anthony Doerr to really up the descriptive language and this truely helped bring the streets of Paris and Saint Malo to life for me. I love her relationship with her friends and family too.
I did not take as much of a liking to Warner, I'm not sure if this is due to the writing style changing slightly during his storyline.
The flicking between time frames is quite frustrating and I personally feel unnecessary. I found the middle third very long and slow. Plus the last third was underwhelming because it became obvious how they would meet 150 pages before they do.
I disliked that there meeting was so fleeting but I lived the simple circularity of the whole story.
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Mar 15, 2018
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