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Hardcover
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ISBN
1476746583

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1476746583
ISBN-13
9781476746586
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167611180

Product Key Features

Book Title
All the Light We Cannot See : a Novel
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Literary, Historical, Media Tie-In
Genre
Fiction
Author
Anthony Doerr
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
23.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-034107
Dewey Edition
23
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This novel has the physical and emotional heft of a masterpiece...[ All the Light We Cannot See ] presents two characters so interesting and sympathetic that readers will keep turning the pages hoping for an impossibly happy ending...Highly recommended for fans of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient ., This tough-to-put-down book proves its worth page after lyrical page...Each and every person in this finely spun assemblage is distinct and true., Incandescent... a luminous work of strife and transcendence... with characters as noble as they are enthralling, Exquisite... All the Light We Cannot See , 10 years under construction, is the written equivalent of a Botticelli painting or a Michelangelo sculpture-as filled with light and beauty as the landscapes, museums, and cathedrals...in Rome...Meticulously researched and chock full of beautiful imagery...Nothing short of brilliant, All the Light We Cannot See gives off the kind of mesmerizing and legend-making light as that of the mysterious diamond that sits in the center of the story., The craftsmanship of Doerr's book is rooted in his ability to inhabit the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner...[A] fine novel., Doerr captures the sights and sounds of wartime and focuses, refreshingly, on the innate goodness of his major characters., Intricate... A meditation on fate, free will, and the way that, in wartime, small choices can have vast consequences., History intertwines with irresistible fiction-secret radio broadcasts, a cursed diamond, a soldier's deepest doubts-into a richly compelling, bittersweet package., There is so much in this book. It is difficult to convey the complexity, the detail, the beauty and the brutality of this simple story., All the Light We Cannot See is a dazzling, epic work of fiction. Anthony Doerr writes beautifully about the mythic and the intimate, about snails on beaches and armies on the move, about fate and love and history and those breathless, unbearable moments when they all come crashing together., Doerr, a fabulous writer, pens an epic novel about a blind French girl and a German boy in occupied France and their struggles to survive World War II., Endlessly bold and equally delicate...An intricate miracle of invention, narrative verve, and deep research lightly held, but above all a miracle of humanity....Anthony Doerr's novel celebrates--and also accomplishes--what only the finest art can: the power to create, reveal, and augment experience in all its horror and wonder, heartbreak and rapture., This novel has the physical and emotional heft of a masterpiece...[All the Light We Cannot See] presents two characters so interesting and sympathetic that readers will keep turning the pages hoping for an impossibly happy ending...Highly recommended for fans of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient., If a book's success can be measured by its ability to move readers and the number of memorable characters it has, Story Prize-winner Doerr's novel triumphs on both counts. Along the way, he convinces readers that new stories can still be told about this well-trod period, and that war-despite its desperation, cruelty, and harrowing moral choices-cannot negate the pleasures of the world., History intertwines with irresistible fiction--secret radio broadcasts, a cursed diamond, a soldier's deepest doubts--into a richly compelling, bittersweet package., Enthrallingly told, beautifully written...Every piece of back story reveals information that charges the emerging narrative with significance, until at last the puzzle-box of the plot slides open to reveal the treasure hidden inside., What a delight! This novel has exquisite writing and a wonderfully suspenseful story. A book you'll tell your friends about..., Doerr deftly guides All the Light We Cannot See toward the day Werner's and Marie-Laure lives intersect during the bombing of Saint-Malo in what may be his best work to date., If a book's success can be measured by its ability to move readers and the number of memorable characters it has, Story Prize-winner Doerr's novel triumphs on both counts. He convinces readers...that war-despite its desperation, cruelty, and harrowing moral choices-cannot negate the pleasures of the world., Doerr sees the world as a scientist, but feels it as a poet. He knows about everything --radios, diamonds, mollusks, birds, flowers, locks, guns--but he also writes a line so beautiful, creates an image or scene so haunting, it makes you think forever differently about the big things--love, fear, cruelty, kindness, the countless facets of the human heart. Wildly suspenseful, structurally daring, rich in detail and soul, Doerr's new novel is that novel, the one you savor, and ponder, and happily lose sleep over, then go around urging all your friends to read--now., Anthony Doerr can find the universe in a grain of sand and write characters I care about with my whole heart., A tender exploration of this world's paradoxes; the beauty of the laws of nature and the terrible ends to which war subverts them; the frailty and the resilience of the human heart; the immutability of a moment and the healing power of time. The language is as expertly crafted as the master locksmith's models in the story, and the settings as intricately evoked. A compelling and uplifting novel., Doerr sees the world as a scientist, but feels it as a poet. He knows about everything -radios, diamonds, mollusks, birds, flowers, locks, guns-but he also writes a line so beautiful, creates an image or scene so haunting, it makes you think forever differently about the big things-love, fear, cruelty, kindness, the countless facets of the human heart. Wildly suspenseful, structurally daring, rich in detail and soul, Doerr's new novel is that novel, the one you savor, and ponder, and happily lose sleep over, then go around urging all your friends to read-now., Sometimes a novel doesn't merely transport. It immerses, engulfs, keeps you caught within its words until the very end, when you blink and remember there's a world beyond the pages. All the Light We Cannot See is such a book... Vibrant, poignant, delicately exquisite. Despite the careful building of time and place (so vivid you fall between the pages), it's not a story of history; it's a story of people living history., History intertwines with irresistible fiction-secret radio broadcasts, a cursed diamond, a soldier's deepest doubts-into a richly compelling, bittersweet package. After you wipe away those stray tears, you'll be casting the movie in your head; this carefully crafted novel fairly begs for a lush Hollywood conversion., To open a book by Anthony Doerr is to open a door on humanity...His sentences shimmer...His paragraphs are luminous with bright, sparkling beauty., Vivid...[ All the Light We Cannot See ] brims with scrupulous reverence for all forms of life. The invisible light of the title shines long after the last page., A novel to live in, learn from, and feel bereft over when the last page is turned, Doerr's magnificently drawn story seems at once spacious and tightly composed. . . . Doerr masterfully and knowledgeably recreates the deprived civilian conditions of war-torn France and the strictly controlled lives of the military occupiers., This jewel of a story is put together like a vintage timepiece, its many threads coming together so perfectly. Doerr's writing and imagery are stunning. It's been a while since a novel had me under its spell in this fashion. The story still lives on in my head., Gorgeous... moves with the pace of a thriller... Doerr imagines the unseen grace, the unseen light that, occasionally, surprisingly, breaks to the surface even in the worst of times., Stunning and ultimately uplifting... Doerr's not-to-be-missed tale is a testament to the buoyancy of our dreams, carrying us into the light through the darkest nights., If a book's success can be measured by its ability to move readers and the number of memorable characters it has, Story Prize-winner Doerr's novel triumphs on both counts. He convinces readers...that war--despite its desperation, cruelty, and harrowing moral choices--cannot negate the pleasures of the world., Boy meets girl in Anthony Doerr's hauntingly beautiful new book, but the circumstances are as elegantly circuitous as they can be....Werner's experience at the school is only one of the many trials through which Mr. Doerr puts his characters in this surprisingly fresh and enveloping book. What's unexpected about its impact is that the novel does not regard Europeans' wartime experience in a new way. Instead, Mr. Doerr's nuanced approach concentrates on the choices his characters make and on the souls that have been lost, both living and dead., Incandescent...Mellifluous and unhurried...Characters as noble as they are enthralling. Doerr looms myriad strains into a luminous work of strife and transcendence., Endlessly bold and equally delicate...An intricate miracle of invention, narrative verve, and deep research lightly held, but above all a miracle of humanity....Anthony Doerr's novel celebrates-and also accomplishes-what only the finest art can: the power to create, reveal, and augment experience in all its horror and wonder, heartbreak and rapture., Doerr has packed each of his scenes with such refractory material that All the Light We Cannot See reflects a dazzling array of themes....Startlingly fresh.
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book 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, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill" ( Los Angeles Times )., 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 ).
LC Classification Number
PS3604.O34A77 2014

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  • by zimmer50
    15 Jun, 2016Most favourable review

    A Most Deserving Winner of the Pulitzer Price

    All I can say, or put into words, is read this book. I firmly believe it will be an unrivaled literary classic. Buy a paperback, find a later printing on eBay or elsewhere, anything. You will be moved, virtually mesmerized by Anthony Doerr's skill and emotional attachment to the times (World War II), and to the characters that inhabit, come alive, in this masterly piece of fiction. I gave a copy to my Doctor, who lent it to other doctors and her mother, all to unanimous praise. My 93 year old father, an army medical core veteran of the D-Day invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. I anxiously await his comments on this book, which, while taking place in territories and times that he himself saw, shows a unique insight into that which he witnessed. Read the Book. Paul Zimmer (aka ...

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  • by kathfol46
    05 Sep, 2024Most critical review

    During WWII. A blind French girl and a German boy. Pulitzer Winner. Excellent!

    I wanted the book to keep, but also to lend to friends. The ad showed that it had a cover. The book I received did not have a cover. I am disappointed. I have read the book before and I liked it very much. I wanted it for a special bookshelf. I wouldn't have bought it if I had known. I recommend the book. It is a great book, well written and compelling.

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  • by quest_for_something
    15 Apr, 2017

    really good read - recommend it

    For a description of the book see Lit Lovers of Good Reads. They will be more detailed than anything I would write here. I read this book a year or two ago and had a hard time putting it down. Great character development, great plot development, lots of intertwining threads well put together. Written in short chapters - easy to read, but not an "easy read" in the sense of not much depth. The ending re-framed the whole story in a sad sort of way. The author is pretty young and for his age he exhibits significant perspective and understanding of the human condition. Highly recommend.

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  • by gramjan-shoppe
    21 Apr, 2016

    War time lives are intertwined

    The character development is outstanding. The reader can picture the characters so well that Hollywood better be careful if they decide to make a movie of this book. The setting(s) are also made very real by the author. This is a very compelling book that was difficult to put down.

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  • by rababmaster
    01 Jun, 2022

    buy it, read it, share it

    This book was published in 2014. There are plenty of reviews elsewhere. This was one of the New York Times '10 Best Books' 2014, and a National Book Award finalist. If that does not settle things for you, you are probably illiterate. Anthony Doerr is one of the better authors you can follow, for certain ... so many authors write with the idea of having their books turned into films that there is very little real literature these days. - Daniel O'Donnell in Portland OR

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