“A novel to live in, learn from, and feel bereft over when the last page is turned.” — Booklist
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 manhole, 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 boy, 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.
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; winner of the Australian International Book Award; a #1 New York Times bestseller; a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award; the 2014 Book of the Year at Hudson Booksellers; the #2 book of 2014 at Amazon.com; a LibraryReads Favorite of Favorites; named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review; a best book of 2014 at Powell’s Books, Barnes & Noble, NPR’s Fresh Air, San Francisco Chronicle, The Week, Entertainment Weekly, the Daily Beast, Slate.com, Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, the Oregonian, the Guardian, and Kirkus; and runner-up for 2015 the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.
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I am two thirds through your book and it’s hard to put down. I hope this becomes a movie.
I love all the characters and looking forward to Werner and Marie-Laure connecting.
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Great writing…one of the best books I have ever read. Your character development, descriptive prose and the way you bring all of the characters together is outstanding!
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Hello. I have finished reading all the light we cannot see with my mother daughter book club and was thoroughly blown away and drawn to the character of Marie Laure. I speak French and would be honoured to play her should the book ever be adapted into a movie. Thanks and congrats on a wonderful book And many more I hope to come
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Dear Mr. doerr.
Hello! I’m a Korean student who loves your book . The story itself was tragic, but the expressions were so beautiful and poetic. Thank you for writing this great book. I hope to See your other works in Korea.
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