Joyce
1 jan. 2020
Een van de prachtigste boeken die ik ooit heb gelezen, en dat zijn er veel...
4.2
Romans literatuur
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 (Luisterboek): 9780007559107
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 8 mei 2014
4.2
Romans literatuur
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 (Luisterboek): 9780007559107
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 8 mei 2014
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Joyce
1 jan. 2020
Een van de prachtigste boeken die ik ooit heb gelezen, en dat zijn er veel...
Arual
7 mei 2020
Fabulous, verhaal en vertelster.
Britt
28 mrt. 2018
ik kon er niet inkomen
Saskia
7 sep. 2021
Prachtig verhaal. Geeft een mooi inkijkje in het leven van de gewone mens ten tijden van WOII en de keuzes die zij maakten/ waartoe zij gedwongen werden. Een aanrader.
Suzanne
6 apr. 2022
I thought this was a very touching, well-written book. The plottwits near the end of the book seemed a little bit forced, though; as if the author did it merely to shock the audience and make the story unpredictable. Apart from that, I though it was a really beautiful story and I enjoyed it a lot.
JoAnna
16 aug. 2021
Prachtig geschreven en voorgelezen. Een boek dat ik niet gauw zal vergeten.
Jaap
6 apr. 2023
Prachtig verhaal! Aanrader
Anita
22 jul. 2021
It’s a bit difficult to understand at times. The story itself it good.
Jools
23 apr. 2022
Prachtig boek heel mooi voorgelezen.
Jo
1 jun. 2020
Prachtig!
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