All the Light We Cannot See

Posted on 06 September 2017 by Anthony Doerr

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful 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 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.Doerr s stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors San Francisco Chronicle are dazzling 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. Best Read All the Light We Cannot See [ Author ] Anthony Doerr [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr All the Light We Cannot Seeby Anthony Doerr This book has the most hauntingly beautiful prose I ve ever read It s brimming with rich details that fill all five senses simultaneously It s full of beautiful metaphors that paint gorgeous images I didn t want this book to end, but I couldn t put it down In August 1944 the historic walled city of Saint Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast of Brittany, France was almost destroyed by fire.Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 18 All the Light We Cannot Seeby Anthony Doerr This book has the most hauntingly beautiful prose I ve ever read It s brimming with rich details that fill all five senses simultaneously It s full of beautiful metaphors that paint gorgeous images I didn t want this book to end, but I couldn t put it down In August 1944 the historic walled city of Saint Malo, ...So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light I m going to be honest love for this book didn t hit me straight away In fact, my first attempt to read it last year ended with me putting it aside and going to find something easier, lighter and less descriptive to read I know meh, what a quitter.But this book is built on beautiful imagery Both in the literal sense the physical world of 1940s Paris Germany and the metaphoricSo how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light I m going to be honest love for this book didn t hit me straight away In fact, my first attempt to read it last year ended with me putting it aside and going to find something easier, lighter and less descriptive to read I know meh, what a quitter.But this book is built on beautiful imagery Both in the literal sense the physical world of 1940s Paris Germany and the metaphorical It s woven ...I always thought, or imagined, that there were these invisible lines trembling in our wake, outlining our trajectories through life, throbbing with electric energy Lines that sometimes cross one other, or follow in parallel ellipses without ever touching, or meet up for one brief moment and then part A universe of lines crisscrossing in the void.Anthony Doerr s astonishing new novel All The Light We Cannot See follows the complex arcs of two such invisible lines through the lives of Werner P I always thought, or imagined, that there were these invisible lines trembling in our wake, outlining our trajectories through life, throbbing with electric energy Lines that sometimes cross one other, or follow in parallel ellipses without ever touching, or meet up for one brief moment and then part A universe of lines crisscrossing in the void.Anthony Doerr s astonishing new novel All The Light We Cannot See follows the complex arcs of two such invisible lines through the lives of Werner Pfennig, an orphan boy in pre World War II Germa...Adult fictionThis book is getting a lot of well deserved attention for its unique story and its beautiful writing It starts late in World War II, as the Allies begin shelling the French city of Saint Malo to drive out the remaining Nazi troops Our two main characters are Marie Laure, a blind French girl who fled here with her uncle from Paris, and Werner, a radio expert in the German army who is stuck in the city when the attack begins We jump back and forth in time, and between the two char Adult fictionThis book is getting a lot of well deserved attention for its unique story and its beautiful writing It starts late in World War II, as the Allies begin shelling the French city of Saint Malo to drive out the remaining Nazi troops Our two main characters are Marie Laure, a blind French...I m sure this is going to mark me as a literary dud, but for all the brilliant reviews of this book I couldn t really get into it.The book revolves around Marie Laure, a blind girl who lives with her father Her father is the locksmith at the Paris Museum of Natural History, and Marie is raised wholly in the museum and at home Marie has a semi idyllic childhood until the Nazi s invade Paris and she and her father have to flee to another city, where a reclusive uncle lives Unknown to Marie, he I m sure this is ...Why write a review if I am such an atypical reader I will keep this brief since I feel most readers will not react as I have, but isn t it important that all views are voiced All readers must agree that the flipping back and forth between different time periods makes this bookconfusing I believe it must be said loudly and clearly that the current fascination with multiple threads and time shifts is only acceptable when they add something to the story, when employment of such improves the Why write a review if I am such an atypical reader I will keep this brief since I feel most readers will not react as I have, but isn t it important that all views are voiced All readers must agree that the flipping back and forth between different time periods makes this bookconfusing I believe it must be said loudly a...This is a carefully constructed book which is bound to captivate a large audience and become very popular, and be blessed with many warm reviews it was chosen by Goodreads members as the best historical fiction of 2014, and shortlisted for the National Book Award There are multiple reasons for its success but they are also the same reasons as to why I didn t enjoy it as much as I hoped I would.Anthony Doerr s All The Light We Cannot See follows the parallel lives of two protagonists Marie This is a carefully constructed book which is bound to captivate a large audience and become very popular, and be blessed with many warm reviews it was chosen by Goodreads members as the best historical fiction of 201...It has been awhile since I have found a book that I wanted to read slowly so that I could soak in every detail in hopes that the last page seems to never come When reading the synopsis of this novel, I never imagined that I would feel so connected to a book where one of the main characters is blind and the other a brilliant young German orphan who was chosen to attend a brutal military academy under Hitler s power using his innate engineering skills.This novel was so muchthan the above st It has been awhile since I have found a book that I wanted to read slowly so that I could soak in every detail in hopes that the last page seems to never come When reading the synopsis of this novel, I never imagined that I would feel so connected to a book where one of the main characters is blind and the other a brilliant young German orphan who was chosen to attend a brutal military academy under Hitler s power using his innate engineering skills.This novel was so muchthan the above states The idiosyncrasies of each individual character are so well defined and expressed in such ways that come across the page almost lyrically I was invited into the pages and could not only imagine the atmosphere, but all of my senses were collectively enticed from the very first page until the last.I was so amazed with the way that the author was able to heighten a...This book was so beautiful and haunting I fell in love with so many of the characters, and loved how their lives were weaved together Knowing the time period this was set in, I knew the ending would hurt And it did, though I didn t shed as many tears as I expected.The writing was incredible, the descriptions so vivid It did a superb job of showing the reader how the characters felt through their actions, rather than telling Whilst the short chapters on average 1.5 pages helped to make thi This book was so beautiful and haunting I fell in love with so many of the characters, and loved how their lives were weaved together Knowing the time period this was set in, I knew the ending would hurt And it did, though I didn t ...Honestly, wtf I mean, we all know the blind person trope Daredevil, etc and the lovable Nazi trope Hiroshima Mon Amour and the mystical object searched for by evil Nazis trope Indiana Jones , so why throw all of these together The book was readable but noso than a pulp fiction thriller Honestly, I don t see this as being Pulitzer quality The characters were ok, the narration interesting, but a masterpiece The best US fiction in 2015 Perhaps not And please don t accuse me of bei Honestly, wtf I mean, we all know the blind person trope Daredevil, etc and the lovable Nazi trope ...

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06 September 2017

Anthony Doerr