All the Light We Cannot See

In the walled seaside city of Saint-Malo, in the last days of the German occupation of France, two young lives are about to intersect.

Marie-Laure LeBlanc, blind since childhood, has fled Paris with her locksmith father and a treasure that may or may not be cursed, carrying with her a scale model of the city that lets her find her way in the dark.

Werner Pfennig, a German orphan whose genius for building and repairing radios lifts him out of a mining town and into the machinery of the Reich, is being used by the very war he never chose.

Moving back and forth across a decade, the novel traces how these two children are shaped by forces far larger than themselves, until the bombing of Saint-Malo brings them together for a handful of unforgettable hours.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See is a luminous, intricately structured work of historical fiction about science, wonder, and the small acts of decency that survive even the cruelest times.