All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Book Analysis) E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 22

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, which centres around Marie-Laure, a blind French girl who has been raised by her devoted father, and Werner, a young German who grew up in poverty before catching the attention of the Nazi military elite. Both characters try to see the good in the world and do the right thing, but are forced to make painful choices by the war that rages around them and the Nazi occupation of France. All the Light We Cannot See is Anthony Doerr’s best-known work. It spent 130 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal in 2015.

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ANTHONY DOERR

AMERICAN NOVELIST AND SHORT STORY WRITER

Born in Cleveland in 1973.Notable works:The Shell Collector (2002), short story collectionAbout Grace (2004), novelMemory Wall (2010), short story collection

Anthony Doerr was born on 27 October 1973 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the University School in Ohio until 1991, before moving to Maine to study history at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, graduating in 1995. He went on to earn an MFA from Bowling Green State University. His first short story collection, The Shell Collector, draws on Doerr’s own experiences living in New Zealand and Africa at different times of his life. After publishing two more books, Memory Wall and About Grace, Doerr earned acclaim with his novel All the Light We Cannot See. He has also written a memoir called Four Seasons in Rome (2007). Doerr contributes to The Morning News, and discusses science books in a column in the Boston Globe. He was appointed writer-in-residence for the state of Idaho between 2007 and 2010, and currently lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife, Shauna Eastman, and two sons.

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

HISTORICAL NOVEL SET IN OCCUPIED FRANCE DURING WWII

Genre: novelReference edition: Doerr, A. (2015) All the Light We Cannot See. London: 4th Estate.1stedition: 2014Themes: courage, choice and destiny, love, order and disorder, war, storytelling

All the Light We Cannot See follows the lives of Marie-Laure, a blind girl who flees Paris after the German occupation, and Werner, a young German private who grew up in poverty, as they struggle to fulfil their dreams and make the right choices. Doerr spent ten years researching the historical context of the novel, which contributed to the realistic detail surrounding radios, for example. All the Light We Cannot See was enormously successful following its publication: it was a New York Times bestseller for 130 consecutive weeks, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal, both in 2015.

SUMMARY

Doerr uses two different timescales to create a sense of pace. One of these scales runs from 1934, when Werner and Marie-Laure are children, to the beginning of the siege of Saint-Malo in 1944. The other timescale covers the siege and the events following it. For the sake of clarity, in this section they will be referred to as A and B respectively.

THE BOMBING STARTS

Timescale B