All the Light We Cannot See
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr.Marie-Laure
has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect
miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch
and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and
daughter flee with a dangerous secret.Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in
the same mine that claimed his father’s life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering.At
the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man
discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all
around him, impending danger closes in.Doerr’s combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electric. As Europe is
engulfed by war and lives collide unpredictably, ‘All The Light We Cannot See’ is a captivating and devastating elegy for innocence.
