This one was a bit of a letdown for me. The beginning and ending were fine, but everything in between dragged. I also found the time jumps distracting—I'd have preferred a more straightforward, chronological story.
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- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
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The epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr.Marie-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.
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All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- Language
- Released
- 2015
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anthony Doerr
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN10
- 0007548672
- ISBN13
- 9780007548675
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Natural sciences, Family, France, Military Fiction, Germany, Wars, American Literature, World War II, 20th century, Death, Escape, Nazism, Paris, Adapted into Series, Radio, Blindness, Pulitzer Prize, Blind People, Retrospective Narration
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- All the Light We Cannot See
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- The epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr.Marie-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.