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  • All the Light We Cannot See

  • A Novel
  • By: Anthony Doerr
  • Narrated by: Zach Appelman
  • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (88 ratings)

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All the Light We Cannot See

By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Zach Appelman
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Summary

Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Fiction

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 12, 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.

©2014 Anthony Doerr (P)2014 Simon & Schuster Audio
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A Beautiful Listen

You could clearly visualise every sentence of this beautifully written and read book.
I am sad that it is finished.

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A very moving tale

Parts of this book brought tears to my eyes. The cruelty and kindness of mankind side by side in a story with many scientific notes but also notes about the beauty of nature.
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Astonishingly beautiful writing.

Breathtakingly beautiful portrayal of the wonders of the universe and the mysteries of the human heart against the backdrop of WW2.
I loved the science and philosophy related through the enquiring minds of the young characters who are, at heart, innocent and wise enough to reject narrow hatred and xenophobia. Doerr’s language is astonishing: he conducts an orchestra of words that from beginning to end convey the ‘drunkenness of things being various’ (to quote Louis MacNeice) and illustrate the extraordinary multiplicity of the universe and the enigma of existence. A GREAT read/listen. Loved Appelmans’s reading.

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Brilliant and captivating

Probably one of the best books I will ever read/listen too. Do not miss this modern masterpiece.

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Even better than the book

At first I wasn't sure about a man reading for Marie Laure, but he seamlessly moved between characters so subtly that it was immediately apparent he was someone else. He conveyed effortlessly the emotions of war. And the Clair de Lune at the end brought tears to my eyes. Loved this performance of the book and will listen to it again.

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Beautiful story and well narrated

I’m glad I listened to this narration as others were not as good and would have distracted from the delicate and moving story.

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Interesting story

I found the jumping back and forth in the characters time lines irritating after a while.

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