All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

Doerr, Anthony

ISBN 10: 1476746583 / ISBN 13: 9781476746586

Published by Scribner, New York, 2014

About this Item

First edition w/complete number line, hardcover, signed by Doerr on the title page, and housed in a custom slipcase as a part of Powell's Indiespensable series, though it lacks the companion booklet. The book has a minor skew to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends, and a hint of shallow bowing to the covers. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, and clean Very Good+ copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has a touch of shelfwear to the spine ends and corners, and is wrapped in Mylar. The slipcase has mild shelfwear to the edges and corners, and is otherwise in Very Good+ condition. Additional images are available upon request.

Seller Inventory # 107545

Bibliographic Details

• Title: All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
• Publisher: Scribner, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1476746583
• ISBN 13: 9781476746586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st U.S. Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book 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.

Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill" (Los Angeles Times).

About the Author

Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times bestselling Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.