All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Paperback – April 4, 2017 by Anthony Doerr

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Author: Doerr Anthony

Brand: Scribner

Edition: Reprint

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• SCRIBNER

Package Dimensions: 32x203x472

Number Of Pages: 544

Release Date: 04-04-2017

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*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award Finalist*

From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller 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.

*Soon to be a Netflix limited series from the producers of Stranger Things*

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (
San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist,
All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (
Los Angeles Times).
Review
“Mesmerizing… Exquisite… The written equivalent of a Botticelli or a Michelangelo.”
–The Portland Oregonian

“Stunning… Uplifting… Not to be missed.”
–Entertainment Weekly

“Hauntingly beautiful.”
–The New York Times

“Each and every person in this finely spun assemblage is distinct and true.”
–USA Today

“Intertwines secret radio broadcasts, a cursed diamond, a soldier’s deepest doubts into a richly compelling package… Irresistible.”
–People

“Gorgeous… Moves with the pace of a thriller.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

“Enthrallingly told, beautifully written.”
—Amanda Vaill, The Washington Post

“Dazzling . . . Startlingly fresh.”
—John Freeman, The Boston Globe

“Intricate . . . A meditation on fate, free will, and the way that, in wartime, small choices can have vast consequences.”
—The New Yorker

“Brims with scrupulous reverence for all forms of life. The invisible light of the title shines long after the last page.”
—Tricia Springstubb, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Anthony Doerr writes beautifully. . . . A tour de force.”
—Elizabeth Reid, Deseret News

“Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.”
—Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

“Perfectly captured . . . Doerr writes sentences that are clear-eyed, taut, sweetly lyrical.”
—Josh Cook, Minneapolis StarTribune

“A beautiful, expansive tale . . . Ambitious and majestic.”
—Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times

“Doerr is an exquisite stylist; his talents are on full display.” —
Alan Cheuse, NPR

“The craftsmanship of Doerr’s book is rooted in his ability to inhabit the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner.” —
Steve Novak, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Doerr deftly guides
All the Light We Cannot See toward the day Werner’s and Marie-Laure’s lives intersect during the bombing of Saint-Malo in what may be his best work to date.” —
Yvonne Zipp, The 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 fin