From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller 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).
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction
##a wonderful piece
评分##文笔好
评分##I bet they are going to make it into a movie, and the movie will contain a shit load of montages.
评分##一本好的小说应该充满画面感,和诗歌一样。盲女和孤儿不算有趣的主题,依然写得引人入胜。炮火纷飞的古城,巴黎的博物馆,游击队,第三帝国的秩序与崩溃,看见鬼魂的老人,被捕的锁匠,寻宝的军官,神奇的无线电技术,时空与人物的反复交错,隐约涌动着宫崎骏动漫的氛围。好书好书。
评分##实在是不喜欢这本书。跟当初的Life of Pi一样。不想说打高分的都是装,只想说我的品位到不了那水准。
评分##我太愛這個故事了。以至於覺得自己什麼都做錯而對不起它。
评分##Reminded me so much of The Book Thief。
评分##I bet they are going to make it into a movie, and the movie will contain a shit load of montages.
评分##我太愛這個故事了。以至於覺得自己什麼都做錯而對不起它。