Book Review: All the Light We Cannot See

Award-winning author Anthony Doerr’s recent novel “All the Light We Cannot See” is an amazing love story set against the backdrop of Second World War. In this novel, the author narrates a story of a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in Nazi occupied France. The story lauds hope and redemption and how people find solace in each other against extremely difficult time. This stunningly beautiful story tells

A page turner, All the Light We Cannot See, tells of a story of blind girl Marie Laure who lives with her locksmith father in Paris and when Hitler’s Germany occupy Paris, the duo flees to Marie-Laure’s great uncle’s house in Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast.

The story also takes us to a German household where two orphans Werner and Jutta Pfennig lives. Warner has a talent for making and fixing radios which eventually secures him to a post in brutal military academy where he tracks the Resistance. Werner travels throughout German-occupied areas and borders of Russia and finally in Saint-Malo where he meets Marie-Laure.

A page-turner the story catches our breath till the last page. The way this simple narration glues the readers to the pages as the story unfolds and a master piece born.

Doerr did an awesome job with his unique style of writing. With love, hope and wish to do good for others against all odds – All the Light We Cannot See – is a master piece which needs to be read and re-re-read.

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About Angella Divyesh

Fiercely Private and Passionately Loyal - Angella Divyesh is Kolkata based writer. To her reading book is not habit but ritual and writing is another form of soul searching. Angella believes that the world would be a better place if the good people voice their opinions without fear and skepticism.