For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. Show In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION Read our review here Format: Paperback WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTIONA 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 IIMarie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret.Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering.At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in.Doerr's combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electric. As Europe is engulfed by war and lives collide unpredictably, 'All The Light We Cannot See' is a captivating and devastating elegy for innocence. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie TaalEngelsMeer informatieUitgeverHarper Collins, NederlandVerschenen2018ISBN9780007548682Aantal pagina's544Omvang1,7 MBKenmerkenePub2, epubAnthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. “History intertwines with irresistible fiction—secret radio broadcasts, a cursed diamond, a soldier’s deepest doubts—into a richly compelling, bittersweet package.” -- Mary Pols ― People (3 1/2 stars) “Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.” -- Elissa Schappell ― Vanity Fair “The whole enthralls.” ― Good Housekeeping “Enthrallingly told, beautifully written…Every piece of back story reveals information that charges the emerging narrative with significance, until at last the puzzle-box of the plot slides open to reveal the treasure hidden inside.” -- Amanda Vaill ― Washington Post “Stupendous…A beautiful, daring, heartbreaking, oddly joyous novel.” -- David Laskin ― The Seattle Times “Stunning and ultimately uplifting… Doerr’s not-to-be-missed tale is a testament to the buoyancy of our dreams, carrying us into the light through the darkest nights.” ― Entertainment Weekly “Doerr has packed each of his scenes with such refractory material that All the Light We Cannot See reflects a dazzling array of themes….Startlingly fresh.” -- John Freeman ― The Boston Globe “Gorgeous… moves with the pace of a thriller… Doerr imagines the unseen grace, the unseen light that, occasionally, surprisingly, breaks to the surface even in the worst of times.” -- Dan Cryer ― San Francisco Chronicle “Incandescent… a luminous work of strife and transcendence… with characters as noble as they are enthralling” -- Hamilton Cain ― O, the Oprah magazine “Perfectly captured…Doerr writes sentences that are clear-eyed, taut, sweetly lyrical.” -- Josh Cook ― Minneapolis Star Tribune “A beautiful, expansive tale…Ambitious and majestic.” -- Steph Cha ― Los Angeles Times “This tough-to-put-down book proves its worth page after lyrical page…Each and every person in this finely spun assemblage is distinct and true.” -- Sharon Peters ― USA Today “Doerr is an exquisite stylist; his talents are on full display.” -- Alan Cheuse ― NPR “Vivid…[All the Light We Cannot See] brims with scrupulous reverence for all forms of life. The invisible light of the title shines long after the last page.” -- Tricia Springstubb ― Cleveland Plain Dealer “Intricate… A meditation on fate, free will, and the way that, in wartime, small choices can have vast consequences.” ― New Yorker “Doerr deftly guides All the Light We Cannot See toward the day Werner’s and Marie-Laure lives intersect during the bombing of Saint-Malo in what may be his best work to date.” -- Yvonne Zipp ― Christian Science Monitor “To open a book by Anthony Doerr is to open a door on humanity…His sentences shimmer…His paragraphs are luminous with bright, sparkling beauty.” -- Martha Anne Toll ― Washington Independent Review of Books “Endlessly bold and equally delicate…An intricate miracle of invention, narrative verve, and deep research lightly held, but above all a miracle of humanity….Anthony Doerr’s novel celebrates—and also accomplishes—what only the finest art can: the power to create, reveal, and augment experience in all its horror and wonder, heartbreak and rapture.” ― Shelf Awareness “Magnificent.” -- Carmen Callil ― The Guardian (UK) “Intricately structured…All the Light We Cannot See is a work of art and of preservation.” -- Jane Ciabattari ― BBC “A revelation.” -- Michael Magras ― BookReporter.com “Anthony Doerr writes beautifully… A tour de force.” -- Elizabeth Reed ― Deseret Morning News “A novel to live in, learn from, and feel bereft over when the last page is turned, Doerr’s magnificently drawn story seems at once spacious and tightly composed. . . . Doerr masterfully and knowledgeably recreates the deprived civilian conditions of war-torn France and the strictly controlled lives of the military occupiers.” ― Booklist (starred review) “Doerr captures the sights and sounds of wartime and focuses, refreshingly, on the innate goodness of his major characters.” ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “If a book’s success can be measured by its ability to move readers and the number of memorable characters it has, Story Prize-winner Doerr’s novel triumphs on both counts. He convinces readers...that war—despite its desperation, cruelty, and harrowing moral choices—cannot negate the pleasures of the world.” ― Publishers Weekly (starred review) “This novel has the physical and emotional heft of a masterpiece…[All the Light We Cannot See] presents two characters so interesting and sympathetic that readers will keep turning the pages hoping for an impossibly happy ending…Highly recommended for fans of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient.” -- Evelyn Beck ― Library Journal (starred review) "What a delight! This novel has exquisite writing and a wonderfully suspenseful story. A book you'll tell your friends about..." -- Frances Itani, author of Deafening “This jewel of a story is put together like a vintage timepiece, its many threads coming together so perfectly. Doerr’s writing and imagery are stunning. It’s been a while since a novel had me under its spell in this fashion. The story still lives on in my head.” -- Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone “All the Light We Cannot See is a dazzling, epic work of fiction. Anthony Doerr writes beautifully about the mythic and the intimate, about snails on beaches and armies on the move, about fate and love and history and those breathless, unbearable moments when they all come crashing together.” -- Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins “Doerr sees the world as a scientist, but feels it as a poet. He knows about everything—radios, diamonds, mollusks, birds, flowers, locks, guns—but he also writes a line so beautiful, creates an image or scene so haunting, it makes you think forever differently about the big things—love, fear, cruelty, kindness, the countless facets of the human heart. Wildly suspenseful, structurally daring, rich in detail and soul, Doerr’s new novel is that novel, the one you savor, and ponder, and happily lose sleep over, then go around urging all your friends to read—now.” -- J.R. Moehringer, author of Sutton and The Tender Bar “A tender exploration of this world's paradoxes; the beauty of the laws of nature and the terrible ends to which war subverts them; the frailty and the resilience of the human heart; the immutability of a moment and the healing power of time. The language is as expertly crafted as the master locksmith's models in the story, and the settings as intricately evoked. A compelling and uplifting novel.” -- M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans “The craftsmanship of Doerr’s book is rooted in his ability to inhabit the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner…[A] fine novel.” -- Steve Novak ― Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Beautifully written… Soulful and addictive.” -- Chris Stuckenschneider ― The Missourian “Doerr conjures up a vibrating, crackling world…Intricately, beautifully crafted.” -- Rebecca Kelley ― Bustle.com “There is so much in this book. It is difficult to convey the complexity, the detail, the beauty and the brutality of this simple story.” -- Carole O'Brien ― Aspen Daily News “Sometimes a novel doesn’t merely transport. It immerses, engulfs, keeps you caught within its words until the very end, when you blink and remember there’s a world beyond the pages. All the Light We Cannot See is such a book… Vibrant, poignant, delicately exquisite. Despite the careful building of time and place (so vivid you fall between the pages), it’s not a story of history; it’s a story of people living history.” ― Historical Novel Society About the AuthorAnthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. Is All the Light We Cannot See hard to read?It's easily one of the most moving books I've read in recent memory. That said, I feel like it was also one of the most effortlessly painful books I've read in a while. There are novels that are difficult to read because they demand more fo the reader (Turn of the Screw comes to mind, but I think it's mostly just dry…
Can a 12 year old read All the Light We Cannot See?This book is for more mature readers or teenagers 14 and up, as the language is PG-13. If you like stories during World War II, then definitely buy this book. Type of Book: Although set in Nazi-occupied France, this is a book that is less about war and more about the people who lived there.
Where can I listen to All the Light We Cannot See?Stream All The Light We Cannot See, By Anthony Doerr, Read by Julie Teal by HarperCollins Publishers | Listen online for free on SoundCloud.
Is All the Light We Cannot See a good read?Anthony Doerr offers a gripping tale of World War II and its aftermath in the National Book Award Finalist novel All the Light We Cannot See. A departure from much of the historical fiction and reported history of the time, the book is an excellent read, well worth the honor heaped upon it.
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