• All the Light We Cannot See

  • A Novel
  • By: Anthony Doerr
  • Narrated by: Zach Appelman
  • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (64,049 ratings)

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All the Light We Cannot See

By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Zach Appelman
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Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Fiction

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.

©2014 Anthony Doerr (P)2014 Simon & Schuster Audio

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Great listen.

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The narrator was wonderful. Easy to get lost in the story
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Sad

It's a story which takes place during "the war" so don't expect anything uplifting. Good story, characters are well developed and grows/ devolve as the story goes on. Exposes the harsh realities of war and war-time Europe as well as life in general. Excellent narration! German and French were accurate.

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Beautiful and engaging

Every word had me hanging on the edge, waiting to find out what would happen next. Beautifully written and a joy to listen to.

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Brilliant! Couldn't stop listening!

Everything about this entire experience was perfect! My heart was filled with hope, heartbreak, and relief throughout the entire story.

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Enjoyable story

This book took a bit to get started but, once it did, it was hard to stop listening to. I felt connected to the characters and the story. I think something is lost in the audio book as the chapters seemed to be off from what Audible listed vs what the narrator stated.

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Telling the story by jumping back and forth in time was difficult sometimes to follow in an audiobook. Excellent story though! Really enjoyed it!!

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A breathtakingly beautiful novel

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The novel ranks among my top 10 favorites.

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The descriptions of the characters and the atmosphere in France during and immediately following WWII are amazingly sensatory.

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Excellent WW2 Era Read

A young blind French girl and a young German boy become unwilling participants in the war effort when Germany invades France.

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Excellent

I really enjoyed this work of historical fiction. Great story, engaging throughout. Definitely worth the time.

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Amazing language

An interesting story well told and unpredictable, at least for me. I appreciated the time line hopping and vivid prose the most.

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