All the Light We Cannot See
A Novel
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Zach Appelman
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Narrated by:
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Zach Appelman
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Anthony Doerr
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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*
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.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. 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, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he 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 a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Where does All the Light We Cannot See rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This books ranks in my top 10. Hard to put down, couldn't wait to get back to it.What was one of the most memorable moments of All the Light We Cannot See?
Far too many to list.If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
A must see!!Any additional comments?
I am not usually a 'war time' story fan, but this book is so much more. Much more about the survival of the common people in a most extraordinary way.Wow, What a story!!
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The narrator was perfect.
A full bodied gem
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Beautifully read.
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What did you like most about All the Light We Cannot See?
This was a brilliantly woven book and the way the stories interlinked was really beautiful.Excellent book and excellent reading!
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