All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr

WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTIONA beautiful, stunningly ambitious 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 IIOpen your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.’For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth.In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofMarie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

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Source ISBN: 9780008138301

Ebook Edition © April 2015 ISBN: 9780007548682

Version: 2017-03-14

Dedication (#ulink_0ecbc92d-f1aa-5745-9627-07b5a03acda4)

For Wendy Weil

1940–2012

Epigraph (#ulink_3902430c-1128-5839-8d72-acb458123d10)

Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast … The city looked picturesque and solid from the sea but as we got near the landing place we realized that the houses visible above the walls were just burnt-out shells … Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remained standing and all were damaged to some degree.

—Philip Beck

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio.

—Joseph Goebbels

Contents

Cover (#u0e170383-70db-5736-8716-b63b177e4280)

Title Page (#u021e03d7-5817-5a9d-9ccf-331b262e6ecc)

Copyright (#ub984cf3a-7613-50e4-95b9-097001a3504c)

Dedication (#ue25c3f6c-7e78-544c-82df-558819f622ad)

Epigraph (#u175150ab-d54b-5187-aa71-56be8b8b5065)

Part Zero: 7 August 1944 (#u257a715a-de5d-510b-8b90-d152e0814c95)

Leaflets (#u3c0d9394-6064-5dba-8c03-cd35ce198d3f)

Bombers (#u4ee7b554-5b1b-5a25-a9d2-2471fa430b36)

The Girl (#ubd8850fe-3334-5251-b8cd-26877538ecc2)

The Boy (#u38916409-93d2-5bd3-be83-5d91946ab313)

Saint-Malo (#ua0f302bb-cefa-5897-9285-cb7ae29cca3c)

Number 4 rue Vauborel (#u1977c9e9-74aa-5b20-97bb-171c0df3ce67)

Cellar (#udaa9a2de-d241-5580-a454-2ac750d6eadc)

Bombs Away (#u2e84a879-1680-5488-bd66-696f7f90d5f2)

Part One: 1934 (#u02f507a9-2ed5-50d8-8217-da412c9b6276)

Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (#u9b666d1f-72cd-548a-9b66-5947cf8ba1c7)

Zollverein (#u338ccd41-b5b9-5215-a80f-09241f3577c5)

Key Pound (#ua7055b52-1111-56d9-831b-8a182b091c46)

Radio (#u1a1dc433-f47e-570d-a3e5-0796dd7ad0f9)

Take Us Home (#u0818f08a-9a5c-5b62-9b4a-143a58e13799)

Something Rising (#u6ee5a5fc-7307-5d6b-915b-33df7d3ca397)