All The Light We Cannot See (Thorndike Reviewers' Choice)
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (773 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1410470229 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 785 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jenna Frye said The light within. It has been a while since I have found a book that I wanted to read slowly so that I could soak in every detail in hopes that the last page seems to never come.When reading the synopsis of this novel, I never imagined that I would feel so connected to a book where one of the main characters is blind and the other a brilliant young German orphan who was chosen to attend a brutal military academy under Hitler's power using his i. One of the best books you'll read this year. Beautiful! Ryan J. Dejonghe ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE is one of the best books you’ll read this year. On one hand, the title implies the lessons learned by a young German orphan boy about radio waves. On the other hand, as the author describes it, “It’s also a metaphorical suggestion that there are countless invisible stories still buried within World War II.” Add in a newly blinded French girl who is forced to leave her familia. Light and Dark in Occupied France Set in World War II France and Germany, All the Light We Cannot See is my favorite kind of novel: long, rich, populated by a range of imperfect characters, some who try to transcend that imperfection, others who cannot see it.The cast of characters includes Marie-Laure, blind since age six, with a quick mind and a great deal of self-confidence; her father, locksmith for the Museum of Natural History in Paris; Marie-Laure&rsquo
Instead they are powerful examples of the way average people in trying times must decide daily between morality and survival. --Sara Nelson. In fact, All the Light We Cannot See--while set mostly in Germany and France before and during the war--is not really a “war novel”. An Best Book of the Month, May 2014: Does the world need yet another novel about WWII? It does when the novel is as inventive and beautiful as this one by Anthony Doerr. Werner is a
With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel. 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. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. 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. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. 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").. 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. Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" ("San Francisco Chronicle") are dazzling. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the h