The Queen's Reading Room

All The Light We Cannot See

By Anthony Doerr

Recommended By Elif Shafak & Miranda Cowley Heller

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Publish Date: 2014 Awards: 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

In this powerful novel, set against the backdrop of WW2, the lives of Marie-Laure, a blind French girl who fled to Brittany with her father after the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1940, and Werner, a German orphan boy whose talent with radios catches the attention of the Hitler Youth, intertwine in occupied France.

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