All the light we cannot see book review6/28/2023 ![]() Doerr takes readers back and forth in time, gradually peeling back the layers of each story and making readers anxious to see how they will converge. The novel opens in 1944 as the Americans drop incendiary bombs on Saint-Malo, forcing both 16-year-old Marie-Laure and 18-year-old Werner to separately fight to survive. Meanwhile, readers watch Werner as he grows up in an orphanage in a mining town in Germany with his younger sister, where his love of learning takes him on a journey from fixing and building radios to attending a school for the Hitler Youth to designing and using systems to weed out the resistance. The novel follows Marie-Laure from her days as a young girl accompanying her father to the museum where he worked in Paris to her life in the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where she lives with her great uncle. “Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”Īnthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the Light We Cannot See, is set during World War II and alternately tells the stories of two teenagers caught up in the confusion and chaos of war. ![]() Out there in the trees beyond Frederick’s window hangs an alien light. ![]() Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?”Ī stillness in the room. ![]() ![]() Be like that American painter in the swamps. ![]()
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