A Luminous Republic
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Lord of the Flies meets Javier Marias, a dark and glinty literary gem with huge potential.
Andrés Barba is an award-winning author of numerous books. He was recognized as one of Granta's Best Young Spanish novelists and received a prestigious literary award for his work. His writing delves deeply into the human psyche, offering readers a profound and unique literary experience.




Lord of the Flies meets Javier Marias, a dark and glinty literary gem with huge potential.
»Sollten Sie aus der großen Buchmessen-Ernte nur einen einzigen spanischen Roman lesen, es sollte dieser sein.« Paul Ingendaay, FAZ Andrés Barbas international gefeierter Roman ist eine mitreißende Geschichte über die drängenden moralischen Fragen unserer Zeit: die Angst vor dem Fremden, die Verletzlichkeit der Zivilisation und den schmalen Grat zwischen Vernunft und Paranoia. Dichter grüner Regenwald, tropische Trägheit: San Cristóbal ist eine verschlafene lateinamerikanische Provinzstadt, bis eines Tages wildfremde Kinder von der anderen Seite des schlammig-breiten Eré-Flusses dort einfallen und die Ruhe stören. Niemand kennt sie. Niemand weiß, woher sie kommen. Niemand versteht ihre Sprache. Sie haben Hunger, sie stehlen, sie jagen den Menschen Angst ein. Die Bewohner von San Cristóbal stehen zunehmend unter Druck: Wie lange wollen sie dem Ganzen tatenlos zusehen? Wie unschuldig sind Kinder? Darf man Böses mit Bösem vergelten?
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A 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 II When Marie Laure goes blind, aged six, her father builds her a model of their Paris neighborhood, so she can memorize it with her fingers and then navigate the real streets. But when the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, is enchanted by a crude radio. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent ultimately makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr 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 his most ambitious and dazzling work.