All the Light We Cannot See
of Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
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An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful 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.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-Laureâs reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museumâs 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.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 531 pages
- Publisher Scribner
- Publication Date 05/06/14
- First Publication 05/28/14
- Language English
- ISBN 9781476746586
- Edition First Scribner hardcover edition May 2014
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Paris (France)', 'Zollverein (Germany)', 'Evreux (France)', 'Saint-Malo (France)', 'Essen (Germany)', 'Berlin (Germany)', 'Schulpforte (Germany)', 'Vienna (Austria)', 'Ăpernay (France)', 'Nuremberg (Germany)']
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