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Book Report On All The Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr

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Title: All The Light we cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publication Date: 2014
Publisher: Scribner
Pages: 544
Keywords: Fiction, Historical, WWII, Doerr, Andrew.

“You will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause... you will eat country and breathe nation.”

Highly acclaimed author Anthony Doerr has succeeded again in presenting a stunningly written bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year (2015). The novel is set in occupied France during WWII and centres on a German orphaned boy and a blind French girl whose paths cross.
Marie Laurie lives in Paris with her father who works for the Museum of Natural History. She loses her eyesight to cataract at the age of six and her father builds her an elaborated and perfect miniature version of their neighbourhood so she could memorise its buildings and locations by touch. Six years later the Nazis …show more content…

Werner becomes an expert in building and fixing radios after finding a radio he became enchanted with. This wins him a place in a cruel academy for Hitler Youth. He is then assigned to track the resistance, which makes him realize humanity pays the price for his intelligence. He travels around until he finally travels into Saint-Malo where he crosses paths with Marie Laurie.
“Her outstretched fingers find an old shaving bowl, an umbrella stand, and a crate full of who-knows-what. The attic floor boards beneath her feet are as wide across as her hands. She knows from experience how much noise a person walking on them makes”
Anthony Doerr has a brilliant sense of the physical details. He enchants the readers with an amazing ability to embroider his piece with gorgeous vivid metaphors. He also succeeds in illuminating the ways of his characters to finally show that against all odds people try to find ways to be good to one

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