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All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction · 2015 · HonorIndies Choice Book Award – Adult Fiction · 2015 · Winner
Scribnerliterary-fictionhistorical-fictionISBN 9781476746586

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Fiction2015Honor
Indies Choice Book Award – Adult Fiction2015Winner

About This Book

The parallel stories of Marie-Laure, a blind French girl whose great-uncle shelters her in Saint-Malo, and Werner, a German boy whose extraordinary gifts with radio technology sweep him into the Wehrmacht, converge in the besieged city as the war approaches its end. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Winner of the Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Fiction. Spent 216 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

About the Author

Anthony Doerr is an American author born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1973. He studied history at Bowdoin College and received his MFA from Bowling Green State University. He is the author of two short story collections, two novels, and a memoir. Read more →

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