Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Fiction
* SOON TO BE A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from the producer and director
of Stranger Things starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer
Aria Mia Loberti*
*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* National Book Award Finalist* A
New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book* A New York Times Bestseller
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The beloved, "incandescent...luminous" (Oprah Daily) 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 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).
