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All the light we cannot see: Anthony Doerr.

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Record Number 819030
Author Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Title All the light we cannot see [electronic resource] / Anthony Doerr.
Publisher/Date [Sydney] : Fourth Estate, 2014.
Contents note Downloadable eBook.
Fiction.
Summary Note 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.
Target audience note Adult.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Youth -- France -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Blind -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Youth -- Germany -- Fiction
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