All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, which centres around Marie-Laure, a blind French girl who has been raised by her devoted father, and Werner, a young German who grew up in poverty before catching the attention of the Nazi military elite. Both characters try to see the good in the world and do the right thing, but are forced to make painful choices by the war that rages around them and the Nazi occupation of France. All the Light We Cannot See is Anthony Doerr’s best-known work. It spent 130 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal in 2015.
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AMERICAN NOVELIST AND SHORT STORY WRITER
Born in Cleveland in 1973.
Notable works:
The Shell Collector (2002), short story collection
About Grace (2004), novel
Memory Wall (2010), short story collection
Anthony Doerr was born on 27 October 1973 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the University School in Ohio until 1991, before moving to Maine to study history at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, graduating in 1995. He went on to earn an MFA from Bowling Green State University. His first short story collection, The Shell Collector, draws on Doerr’s own experiences living in New Zealand and Africa at different times of his life. After publishing two more books, Memory Wall and About Grace, Doerr earned acclaim with his novel All the Light We Cannot See. He has also written a memoir called Four Seasons in Rome (2007). Doerr contributes to The Morning News, and discusses science books in a column in the Boston Globe. He was appointed writer-in-residence for the state of Idaho between 2007 and 2010, and currently lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife, Shauna Eastman, and two sons.
HISTORICAL NOVEL SET IN OCCUPIED FRANCE DURING WWII
Genre: novel
Reference edition: Doerr, A. (2015) All the Light We Cannot See. London: