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Format:
Book
Title:
All the light we cannot see : a novel
ISBN:
9781476746586

9781476746593

9781501173219

9781501104565
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication:
New York : Scribner, 2014.
Physical Description:
531 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
7 August 1944. Leaflets -- Bombers -- The girl -- The boy -- Saint-Malo -- Number 4 rue Vauborel -- Cellar -- Bombs away -- 1934. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle -- Zollverein -- Key pound -- Radio -- Take us home -- Something rising -- Light -- Our flag flutters before us -- Around the world in eighty days -- The professor -- Sea of flames -- Open your eyes -- Fade -- The principles of mechanics -- Rumors -- Bigger faster brighter -- Mark of the beast -- Good evening : or 'heil' Hitler if you prefer -- Bye-bye, blind girl -- Making socks -- Flight -- Herr Siedler -- Exodus -- 8 August 1944. Saint-Malo -- Number 4 rue Vauborel -- Hotel of bees -- Down six flights -- Trapped -- June 1940. Chateau -- Entrance exam -- Brittany -- Madame Manec -- You have been called -- 'Occuper' -- Don't tell lies -- Etienne -- 'Jungmanner' -- Vienna -- The 'Boches' -- Hauptmann -- Flying couch -- The sum of angels -- The professor -- Perfumer -- Time of the ostriches -- Weakest -- Mandatory surrender -- Museum -- The wardrobe -- Blackbirds -- Bath -- Weakest (#2) -- The arrest of the locksmith -- 8 August 1944. The fort of La Cite -- 'Atelier de reparation' -- Two cans -- Number 4 rue Vauborel -- What they have -- Trip wire -- January 1941. January recess -- He is not coming back -- Prisoner -- Plage du Mole -- Lapidary -- Entropy -- The rounds -- 'Nadel im Heuhaufen' -- Proposal -- You have other friends -- Old ladies' resistance club -- Diagnosis -- Weakest (#3) -- Grotto -- Intoxicated -- The blade of the whelk -- Alive before you die -- No out -- The disappearance of Hubert Bazin -- Everything poisoned -- Visitors -- The frog cooks -- Orders -- Pneumonia -- Treatments -- Heaven -- Frederick -- Relapse -- 8 August 1944. Somone in the house -- The death of Walter Bernd -- Sixth-floor bedroom -- Making the radio -- In the attic -- August 1942. Prisoners -- The wardrobe -- East -- One ordinart loaf -- Volkheimer -- Fall -- Sunflowers -- Stones -- Grotto -- Hunting -- The messages -- Loudenvielle -- Gray -- Fever -- The third stone -- The bridge -- Rue des Patriarches -- White city -- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea -- Telegram -- 9 August 1944. Fort national -- In the attic -- The heads -- Delirium -- Water -- The beams -- The transmitter -- Voice -- May 1944. Edge of the world -- Numbers -- May -- Hunting (again) -- "Clair de Lune" -- Antenna -- Big Claude -- 'Boulangerie' -- Grotto -- Agoraphobia -- Nothing -- Forty minutes -- The girl -- Little house -- Numbers -- Sea of flames -- The arrest of Etienne LeBlanc -- 7 August 1944 -- Leaflets -- 12 August 1944. Entombed -- Fort national -- Captain Nemo's last words -- Visitor -- Final sentence -- Music #1 -- Music #2 -- Music #3 -- Out -- Wardrobe -- Comrades -- The simultaneity of instants -- Are you there? -- Second can -- Birds of America -- Cease-fire -- Chocolate -- Light -- 1945. Berlin -- Paris -- 1974. Volkheimer -- Jutta -- Duffel -- Saint-Malo -- Laboratory -- Visitor -- Paper airplane -- The key -- Sea of flames -- Frederick -- 2014.
Summary:
"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-Laure's 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. Doerr's 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"-- Provided by publisher
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