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All the light we cannot see : a novel / Anthony Doerr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Fourth Estate, 2015.Description: 531 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780008138301 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3604.O34
Summary: Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorise it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, they flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in.
List(s) this item appears in: Adventure | Historical Fiction | War Stories | Neurodiversity & Mental Wellbeing
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Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital Fiction Section F DOE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 13/10/2023 R14406N0499

Originally published: 2014.

Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorise it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, they flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in.

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