“A novel to live in, learn from, and feel bereft over when the last page is turned.” 

– BOOKLIST

Now out on Netflix as a four-part limited series, directed by Shawn Levy and written by Steven Knight

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOR OVER 200 WEEKS

FINALIST FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 

WINNER OF THE INDIES CHOICE BOOK AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCATION

WINNER OF AN ALEX AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCATION

WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

HUDSON BOOKSELLERS' 2014 BOOK OF THE YEAR

2014 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER

NAMED BEST BOOK OF THE DECADE BY INDIGO

NAMED THE BEST NOVEL OF 2014 BY APPLE IBOOKS

Nominated by New York Times readers as the best book of the last 125 years, 2021

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood—every house, every sewer drain—so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris in June of 1940, 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 named Werner grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, 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’s.

Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of multiple characters, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

“The written equivalent of a Botticelli painting or a Michelangelo sculpture. . . Nothing short of brilliant, ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ gives off the kind of mesmerizing and legend-making light as that of the mysterious diamond that sits in the center of the story.”
–Portland Oregonian

“Hauntingly beautiful.”
–Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“Gripping… As the strands of the plot converge, the book becomes a meditation on fate, free will, and the way that, in wartime, small choices can have vast consequences.”
–the new yorker

“Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.”
–Vanity Fair

“Every sentence is an act of compassion. There’s not a fuzzy or lagging moment in the 500-plus pages. Like the title, Doerr’s prose is an unseen force that, over and over, will nudge you to the edge of your chair and leave you breathless. This is a beautiful book, an astounding meditation on the paradoxes of fate, human relationships and nature.”
― minneapolis star tribune

“Enthrallingly told, beautifully written… Every piece of backstory reveals information that charges the emerging narrative with significance, until at last the puzzle-box of the plot slides open to reveal the treasure hidden inside.”
–Amanda Vaill, Washington Post