AUTHOR : Anthony Doerr

OUTLINE : A blind French girl guarding a priceless secret and a gifted German boy hunting radio signals are pulled together by fate as war tests their humanity.

My Rating – 4.5/5,
Pages – 534,
First Published – 06, May 2014,
Language – English,
Genres – Historical Fiction, Fiction, Book Club, Historical, War, World War II, Literary Fiction, France

Story Snapshot (No Spoilers):

Marie-Laure grows up in Paris beside the Museum of Natural History, where her father works, living a quiet and curious life until war storms in. When the Nazis occupy the city, she and her father are forced to escape to the fortified coastal town of Saint-Malo, where her mysterious great-uncle lives in a tall, lonely house overlooking the sea. Hidden in their luggage is a jewel so rare and dangerous that it could change everything. Meanwhile, in a small German mining town, an orphaned boy named Werner Pfennig discovers wonder through an old radio he finds with his younger sister. The voices and music from distant places open a whole new world to him. His talent for building and repairing radios soon turns him into a valuable asset for the German army, using his skills to track down secret resistance broadcasts.

As their separate journeys unfold, their lives slowly move toward each other in unexpected ways. Through Marie-Laure and Werner, the novel beautifully explores how kindness, courage, and humanity can survive even in the darkest moments of war.

My Experience:

It is powered by solely my experience with book, zero sponsorship, zero bribe, not even a bookmark involved (forget about free copy of book).

One morning, NEWS paper mentioned about this book “All the Light we Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr, So i got this. Writing is great and the structure of book is wonderful. The way, chapters are formed and story go on. Now there is Netflix series too on this book. Go for this if you want to read something new.

This book serves premium character development, not the instant noodle kind. Nobody here is perfectly good or cartoonishly evil, just beautifully messy humans second guessing their life choices at 3 a.m. There are even two disabled characters who are not pushed to the background, they are out there doing serious, plot moving, hero level work. Proof that you do not need a sword, a cape, or flying kicks to save the day, sometimes all you need is brains, courage, and a stubborn refusal to quit.

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