All The Light We Cannot See Book Summary

It won the 2015 pulitzer prize for fiction and the 2015 andrew carnegie medal for excellence in fiction.

All the light we cannot see book summary.

With richly detailed language and characters who are both brave and heartbreaking doerr weaves together the stories of a french girl named marie laure who has lost her eyesight and a german orphan named werner. All the light we cannot see anthony doerr 2014 scribner 544 pp. The story is told un chronologically but the timeline is simplified for the purposes of this. Set in occupied france during world war ii the novel centers on a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths eventually cross.

All the light we cannot see is told in almost 200 short chapters and constantly cuts back and forth between two main characters. It won the 2015 pulitzer prize for fiction and the 2015 andrew carnegie medal for excellence in fiction. All the light we cannot see is a war novel written by american author anthony doerr published by scribner on may 6 2014. Marie laure lives in paris with her father a locksmith for the museum of natural history.

All the light we cannot see covers five primary periods in the lives of marie laure leblanc and werner pfennig. Childhood before the war. Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers. Ten years in the writing anthony doerr s all the light we cannot see is an epic work of historical fiction.

All the light we cannot see traces the stories of three characters whose lives intersect during the bombing of the german occupied french town of saint malo in august 1944 marie laure leblanc grows up in paris where her father daniel leblanc works as a locksmith at the museum of natural history.