All the Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr

Condition: Like New

Format:    Hardcover
Language:    English
ISBN:    1476746583
ISBN13:    9781476746586
Release Date:    May 2014
Publisher:    Scribner Book Company
Length:    544 Pages
Weight:    1.59 lbs.
Dimensions:    1.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Book Overview: 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book 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.

All the Light We Cannot See is a Pulitzer Prize winning historical novel by Anthony Doerr that beautifully weaves together the lives of two teenagers during World War II: Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig, a German orphan with a talent for engineering.

As Nazi forces occupy France, Marie Laure flees Paris with her father, carrying a legendary and possibly cursed gem. They take refuge in the coastal town of Saint Malo, where her path eventually crosses with Werner’s. A member of the Hitler Youth, Werner is forced into a brutal world of war and violence, yet his conscience and love of science set him on a collision course with Marie Laure’s story.

Told in short, lyrical chapters that alternate between past and present, Doerr’s novel explores the resilience of the human spirit, the power of kindness, and the invisible threads that connect people even in the darkest times.

Sweeping, emotional, and meticulously researched, All the Light We Cannot See is a profound meditation on survival, morality, and the small acts of courage that can change the course of a life.