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All the Light We Cannot See
Contributor(s): Doerr, Anthony (Author)

ISBN: 1410470229 ISBN-13: 9781410470225
Publisher: Thorndike Press

OUR PRICE: $34.19

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2014
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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Literary

Dewey: 813.6

LCCN: 2014010289

Lexile Measure: 880(Not Available)

Series: Thorndike Reviewers' Choice

Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" L (1.90 lbs) 771 pages

Features: Large Print

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 171859
Reading Level: 6.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 21.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
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").

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