From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller 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 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 twelve, 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.
Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he 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 a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction
##a wonderful piece
评分##一本好的小说应该充满画面感,和诗歌一样。盲女和孤儿不算有趣的主题,依然写得引人入胜。炮火纷飞的古城,巴黎的博物馆,游击队,第三帝国的秩序与崩溃,看见鬼魂的老人,被捕的锁匠,寻宝的军官,神奇的无线电技术,时空与人物的反复交错,隐约涌动着宫崎骏动漫的氛围。好书好书。
评分##四星半。“What the war did to dreamers.” Pure, sad, beautiful and sweet. 文笔特别好,是属于那种大段描写里不少单词不认识,也不妨碍感受到文字传递的那份优美,坚忍和力量。很久没有读过节奏那么舒缓的小说了,竟也读得很快,短小的章节非常reader-friendly. Patience really pays off. What a rewarding read. 打不到五星是因为钻石那条线有点落俗套。最后有几个片段无悬念看哭,看完还时时在脑中回放。spoiler: 女孩说 I'm not brave. I just wake up and live my life. 你也是这样的吧?
评分##beautifully written.
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