All the Light We Cannot See

* COMING IN NOVEMBER AS 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).




Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Colorado Blue Spruce Award - Nominee
Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Winner
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Winner
Award: Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Runner-Up
Award: Idaho Library Association Book Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
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

About the Author
Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times bestselling Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.