All the Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Scribner
Pages: 530
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, World War II
Published: May 6, 2014
Rating: 3/5 stars
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Description
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller 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 II.Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
My thoughts
Everyone
tells me that this is amazing and I really need to read it. And I liked it but
I was expecting more.
I liked the
writing and the descriptions were vivid. The gripping WW2 events moved me, some
events made me sad others shocked me. In a war innocent people die on both
sides. It feels sometimes so useless, the writer did a good job making me feel that.
The writing was the best part of this book.
I liked
Marie a lot and it was interesting how her life changed when she fled Paris.
Werner had a lot of potential too, but he turned out more 2 dimensional.
It felt
like you were waiting for something important to happen, but when it happened I
was underwhelmed. Eventually Marie and Werner’s storylines come together, but
only for such a short time that I was disappointed.
I didn’t
like the storyline with the artifact of the museum. The whole story around this
artifact was in my opinion a bit unnecessary.
Overall I
liked it, but I didn’t meet my expectations. It didn’t live up to the hype.
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