WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.
In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.
Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.
© 2014 Fourth Estate (Audiolibro): 9780007559107
Fecha de lanzamiento
Audiolibro: 8 de mayo de 2014
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.
In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.
Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.
© 2014 Fourth Estate (Audiolibro): 9780007559107
Fecha de lanzamiento
Audiolibro: 8 de mayo de 2014
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Kenia Janeth
19 ene 2022
¡Dios mío! ¡Cómo no ponerle cinco estrellas a este libro! Fue capaz de cautivarme desde el inicio que me limite a escuchar y sentir. Hay personajes que se aferran a sus sueños de la forma más inocente y que luego tiene que vivir infiernos y atrocidades que los perseguirán en sus pesadillas. Aman, lloran, pelean con el afán de sobrevivir un día más, pero ¿solo sobrevivir será suficiente? ¿Será que estoy haciendo lo correcto? ¿Será que enfrentarse a sus miedos valdrá la pena o será más fácil rendirme a ellos y dejar que todo siga su curso? Esas son preguntas que flotan en la cabeza de los protagonistas y sus repuestas son de gran importancia, pues definirán como serán vistos en la historia cuando llegué el final de la guerra. Ya que son nuestras decisiones las que dan forma a la persona en la que nos convertimos.Prepárense para las lágrimas para vivir como niños que desea tener un futuro brillante, seguro y feliz, pero que es incierto si lo obtendrán. 🥺
Alejandra
1 jun 2020
A WWII story from a different perspective: the victims who were recipients of the war, and the germans, who also have a story to tell.
Adriana
27 abr 2020
Una historia de la guerra vista desde dos adolescentes. Muy recomendable
Gabriela
14 ene 2020
Aunque es novela histórica de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, es una historia diferente.
Caro
14 abr 2023
Me encantó!
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