Book Title: All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Scribner
Year Published: 2014
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If you have the need to be transported back to 1940s France or Germany, author Anthony Doerr provides such a journey for you in his novel All the Light We Cannot See, a novel which took him a decade to complete. The breathtaking details within the pages are all the proof you need to know he took care over that decade to craft a masterpiece of historical fiction.
The book centers upon two characters whose stories are interwoven with intricate details which heighten your senses and sensibility for the harrowing times in which they mature. The first character is Marie-Laure, a young girl who loses her sight at age 6 whose father is a master locksmith for the Museum of Natural History in Paris. The second character is a talented German boy named Werner who takes his love for radio and turns it into a skill much coveted by the Nazis and he is instantly swept up by the Hitler Youth. Werner, a youth with a kind heart eventually realizes the information he gathers through tracking the French resistance has a cost and it is paid by human blood. The paths of Marie-Laure and Werner cross in the seaside City of Saint Malo where she and her father escaped to when the Nazis occupied Paris.
No cliches, description beyond your wildest imagination and an outcome you simply can’t predict are only a portion of what make this novel, All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, a book you may shed more than a few tears over when you turn the last page.
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