WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious 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, a National Book Award finalist,
All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill" (
Los Angeles Times).
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/06/2014
ISBN: 9781476746586
Pages: 531
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.40w x 1.70d
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Winner
Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: Colorado Blue Spruce Award - Nominee
Award: Idaho Library Association Book Award - Winner
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner
Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Winner
Award: Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Runner-Up
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2013 pg. 68
Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 62
Publishers Weekly 02/17/2014
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2014
Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 23
People Weekly 05/12/2014 pg. 62
Entertainment Weekly 05/09/2014 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 05/11/2014 pg. 16
Shelf Awareness 05/06/2014
Entertainment Weekly 05/23/2014 pg. 71
New York Times Book Review 05/18/2014 pg. 30
New Yorker (The) 06/23/2014 pg. 85
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2014 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 15
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 29
SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2014 pg. 31
Shelf Awareness 12/12/2014
Christian Century 12/10/2014 pg. 31
Entertainment Weekly 12/12/2014 pg. 72
New York Times Book Review 12/14/2014 pg. 10
People Weekly 12/22/2014 pg. 46
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2015 pg. 10
Library Journal 12/01/2013
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 171859 / All the Light We Cannot See
Reading Level: 6.2 /
Interest Level: Upper Grade /
Point Value: 21