![]() Marie and Werner are well-rounded characters that will take you along with them as they try to navigate a world governed by war, and you’ll quickly find yourself experiencing the very same emotional rollercoaster that they themselves are undergoing. ‘All The Light We Cannot See’ has its flaws but it is an emotionally enthralling tale nonetheless, focused on two individual children who find themselves trapped in the terror of a war that they neither understand nor had any part in causing. Henry Prizes and won a number of prizes including the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal. Doerr is a two-time National Book Award finalist, and his fiction has won five O. ![]() Their stories slowly but skilfully draw nearer and nearer one another, until they finally intercept, in a refreshing and unexpected way. Anthony Doerr is the author of six books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Memory Wall, Four Seasons in Rome, All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land. ![]() Werner is a German orphan who finds himself attending a facility for Hitler youth. Marie-Laure is a young blind girl living with her father in Paris. Set during WW2, the narrative is split between the present day and flashbacks but its fairly easy to follow as the story focuses largely on just two characters – a young blind French girl and a German boy. War books aren’t typically my go-to but ‘All The Light We Cannot See’ is far from a conventional war story. ![]()
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