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Item Details
Title:
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ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
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By: |
Anthony Doerr |
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Hardback |
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£16.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0007548664 |
ISBN 13: |
9780007548668 |
Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
Pub. date: |
8 May, 2014 |
Pages: |
544 |
Description: |
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr. |
Synopsis: |
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A 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 II, from the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning 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. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Fourth Estate Ltd |
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