New York: Scribner, 2014. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. A fine book in illustrated wrappers. An early edition of the book, issued before the first edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2015 and Finalist for the National Book Award. A large format paperback issued before the first trade edition. Recently shown on Netflix as TV mini-series The intertwined stories of a blind girl and German soldier who confront adversity in the final days of World War II in the bombed out city of Saint-Malo, France.

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From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel 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 within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-LaureâÈçs agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. DoerrâÈçs gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr 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 his most ambitious and dazzling work.

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On Apr 6 2018, a reader said:

A book so well written that you slow your pace to savour the words.

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Seller: Sawtooth Rare Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 29223
Title: All the Light We Cannot See
Author: DOERR, Anthony
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Advance Reading Copy
ISBN 10: 0007548664
ISBN 13: 9780007548668
Publisher: Scribner
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2014
Keywords: World War II, France,

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