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  2. May 6, 2014 · All the Light We Cannot See. Anthony Doerr. 4.31. 1,768,602 ratings113,165 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Winner for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2014) Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works.

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    An interesting style choice by the author was to present the story in a nonlinear (out of chronological order) style in a sense. Let me explain, there’s two storylines happening that will eventually connect. It begins on Aug. 7, 1944 in Saint-Malo when American shelling and bombing as well as British naval gunfire arrive to defeat the Germans that ...

    Marie-Laure spends her life darkness, however, her other senses are quite amplified. Whereas Werner is focused on sound. But, arguably, they both aren’t spending time in the light— physically for Marie-Laure and for Werner, as a matter of circumstance in the school and in war for Werner. War is tragic, bleak and traumatizing and Werner is unsure if...

    From rooting for Marie-Laure to hoping Werner can break away, those are two of some of the most memorable characters I’ve read in a while. But the author also introduces some fantastic characters from Marie-Laure’s great-Uncle Etienne to the housemaid Madame Manec to Werner’s first friend who stood up to the Nazis, Frederick.

    The Sea of Flames does play a key part in the novel but if you’re worried this means it’s a fantasy, it’s not at all. It serves a deeper theme of the danger of possessions and the extreme lengths of Nazi gem collector Von Rumpel will go to achieve it. This is a complete story. It’s big in nature and often times heartbreaking.

  3. Nov 2, 2023 · Netflix's All the Light We Cannot See changes the fates of a number of main characters, including Daniel, Etienne, and Werner. In the novel, which took Doerr 10 years to write, Daniel...

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  4. Dec 28, 2014 · Anthony Doerr offers a gripping tale of World War II and its aftermath in the National Book Award Finalist novel All the Light We Cannot See. A departure from much of the historical fiction and reported history of the time, the book is an excellent read, well worth the honor heaped upon it.

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  5. May 6, 2014 · Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.

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  6. All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 war novel by American author Anthony Doerr. The novel is set during World War II . It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany , and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is ...

  7. Nov 2, 2023 · All the Light We Cannot See comes from the same aesthetic impulse, the tweeification of horror. The central MacGuffin – a diamond hidden in a model village – has a comic book quality, while ...

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