This year Australian readers voted All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr their all-time favourite novel in Dymocks’ Top 101 poll.
This sweeping, beautifully-written novel, ten years in the making, tells the tale of a blind French girl and a German orphan boy, whose paths collide in Nazi-occupied France. With his wonderfully-descriptive prose, Doerr weaves a touching, kind-hearted story show human nature at its best, and the ways love can endure even in the most cruel and oppressive conditions.
All The Light We Cannot See already has a huge number of fans in the Starts at 60 community, with more discovering it every day. In her 2015 review, Starts at 60 community member Vivienne called it “a challenging, gripping read that keeps you wanting more”.
If you’re wondering how it captured the hearts of so many readers around the world, now’s your chance to sample Doerr’s powerful and uplifting novel for yourself.
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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.
For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth.
In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.