Scribner, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 2014 Scribner. 43rd printing. Hardcover has dark blue paper-covered boards with sea green textured paper-covered spine and black spine lettering. 531 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped; bottom corner of back cover is also bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear, as well as some smudges and darkened spots. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light surface and edge wear, with chips at the corners and spine ends. Jacket has round gold logos "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize." Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Synopsis

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-LaureâÈçs 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. DoerrâÈçs 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.

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On Apr 6 2018, a reader said:

A book so well written that you slow your pace to savour the words.

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Bookseller: SmarterRat Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 14542
Title: All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Doerr, Anthony
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
ISBN 10: 1476746583
ISBN 13: 9781476746586
Publisher: Scribner
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2014
Keywords: Fiction,War
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction; War;

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