𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙎𝙚𝙚

Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel now a film

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑾𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝑺𝒆𝒆

Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See. Scribner. May 2014. 544p

Shifting among multiple viewpoints but focusing mostly on blind French teenager Marie-Laure and Werner, a brilliant German soldier just a few years older than she, this novel has the physical and emotional heft of a masterpiece. The main protagonists are brave, sensitive, and intellectually curious, and in another time they might have been a couple. But they are on opposite sides of the horrors of World War II, and their fates ultimately collide in connection with the radio¹--a means of resistance for the Allies and just one more avenue of annihilation for the Nazis. Set mostly in the final year of the war but moving back to the 1930s and forward to the present, the novel presents two characters so interesting and sympathetic that readers will keep turning the pages hoping for an impossibly happy ending. Marie-Laure and Werner both suffer crushing losses and struggle to survive with dignity amid Hitler's swath of cruelty and destruction.²

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Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. 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, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

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1. In 2017, partly inspired by this book I earned my radio license. KN4IJM. Licensing | Federal Communications Commission (fcc.gov)

2. Review by Beck, Evelyn. “Doerr, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See.” Library Journal 2014: 62–