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All the Light We Cannot See : a Novel by Doerr, Anthony is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the highly acclaimed Anthony Doerr, an imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.A blind child, 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 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 mining town in Germany Werner grows up enchanted by a crude radio he's found. His talent with these crucial instruments will eventually bring Werner to 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)."Enthrallingly told, beautifully written and so

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Author
Doerr, Anthony
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781501173219
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
Rating
4.31 / 5 (498,685 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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