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

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ISBN: 1476746583     ISBN-13: 9781476746586
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - World War Ii
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | War & Military
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2013034107
Lexile Measure: 880(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.4" W x 9.25" L (1.60 lbs) 544 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Cultural Region - French
- Topical - Physically Challenged
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian
Awards: ALA Notable Books, Winner, Fiction, 2015
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, Winner, Fiction, 2015
Alex Awards, Winner, Adult/For Young Adults, 2015
Colorado Blue Spruce Award, Nominee, Young Adult, 2016
Idaho Library Association Book Award, Winner, Outstanding Contribution, 2014
National Book Awards, Finalist, Fiction, 2014
Pulitzer Prize, Winner, Fiction, 2015
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, Winner, Regional Book, 2015
Indies Choice Book Awards, Winner, Fiction, 2015
Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Runner-Up, Fiction, 2015
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2013 pg. 68
Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 62
Publishers Weekly 02/17/2014
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2014
Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 23
People Weekly 05/12/2014 pg. 62
Entertainment Weekly 05/09/2014 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 05/11/2014 pg. 16
Shelf Awareness 05/06/2014
Entertainment Weekly 05/23/2014 pg. 71
New York Times Book Review 05/18/2014 pg. 30
New Yorker (The) 06/23/2014 pg. 85
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2014 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 15
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 26
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2014 pg. 29
SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2014 pg. 31
Shelf Awareness 12/12/2014
Christian Century 12/10/2014 pg. 31
Entertainment Weekly 12/12/2014 pg. 72
New York Times Book Review 12/14/2014 pg. 10
People Weekly 12/22/2014 pg. 46
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2015 pg. 10
Library Journal 12/01/2013
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 171859
Reading Level: 6.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 21.0
 
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Publisher Description:
*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award finalist *

From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious 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 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, 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).


Contributor Bio(s): Doerr, Anthony: - Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won four O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
 
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