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By Anthony Doerr

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A LL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE TAKES PLACE DURING WORLD WAR II. THE stories of two young people are told, giving two incredibly different perspectives during the War: Marie-Laure Leblanc, a young child who must escape Paris, France, and Werner Pfennig, a child in Germany who grows up to join the Nazis. The story takes place over the span of ten years from 1934 to 1944.

In 1934, Marie-Laure Leblanc is living in Paris, France, with her father. Her father works as a locksmith. As the war moves closer to Paris, Daniel is asked to make three copies of a precious stone that is never shown to the public called the Sea of Flames. The real stone and its copies are then given to four couriers. The four people do not know whether they have the real stone or not. Daniel ends up receiving one of the stones.

Marie-Laure lost her sight as a young child. To help her, Daniel created a model of their house and their neighborhood. Marie-Laure is eventually able to navigate the area they live in confidently. However, that all changes when Daniel and Marie-Laure must leave Paris and escape to Saint-Malo. Marie-Laure feels afraid at the thought of leaving her home and the safety of knowing the area where she lives.

Marie-Laure and Daniel arrive in Saint-Malo where they live with her uncle Etienne and Madame Manec. Daniel promises that he will never leave Marie-Laure, and he begins to build her a model of the house in Saint-Malo.

In Germany in 1934, Werner Pfennig and his sister Jutta are orphans living in an orphanage in Zollverein. Werner takes great interest in a radio program hosted by a man in France, and he begins to teach himself about electronics. He eventually learns how to build his own radios.

When word travels around about Werner's skill in electronics and radios, he is put into a Nazi training program at the National Political Institutes of Education. He hates the training he is receiving and wishes he could be back with his sister Jutta. However, he is eventually put in charge of finding people who are sending illegal radio signals.

In 1944, Werner's unit arrives in Saint-Malo. Their mission is to find the person sending illegal intelligence broadcasts and destroy them. Von Rumpel is also on the island with a mission to find the Sea of Flames. His motivation to find the stone is that he believes it will cure the cancer he is dying from. Daniel and Etienne are both captured from the house leaving Marie-Laure alone.

Werner discovers the source of the radio broadcasts and learns that they are the same broadcasts he listened to as a child that inspired his interest in electronics. The man he had been inspired by since childhood was Marie-Laure's Uncle Etienne. Werner decides to save Marie-Laure from von Rumpel and gets her to safety. However, Werner becomes extremely ill and one night he mistakenly steps on a landmine, which kills him instantly.

Thirty years after Werner's death, Jutta meets with Marie-Laure. Marie-Laure learns that Werner left the Sea of Flames in the grotto in Saint-Malo. The story ends with Marie-Laure as an elderly woman living in Paris.

A NTHONY DOERR WAS BORN IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, IN 1973. HE SPENT much of his childhood in Novelty, Ohio. Novelty, also known as Russel Township, is a small town of just over 5,000 people in northeastern Ohio. Doerr attended the prestigious secondary school known as University School in nearby Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He graduated from University School in 1991.

After leaving his secondary school, Doerr moved to Brunswick, Maine, where he attended Bowdoin College. At Bowdoin College, Doerr was a history major. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1995 with a bachelor of arts. He later went on to study at Bowling Green State Universitywhere he obtained a master of fine arts.

Before becoming a novelist, Doerr wrote mainly short stories. He published his first collection of short stories in 2002. This collection was called The Shell Collector . Many of the stories found in The Shell Collector are set in New Zealand and Africa. Doerr has lived and worked in both locations.

In 2010, Doerr released another collection of short stories called Memory Wall . The stories found in Memory Wall take place across the world from Wyoming to South Africa to Lithuania. The collection won many awards including the Notable Book of 2010 Award from The New York Times and the National Magazine Award for the title novella in the collection.

In 2004, Doerr's first novel, About Grace , was published. About Grace tells the story of David Winkler, a hydrologist. David often has dreams that come true later in his life. About Grace was chosen as one of The Book-of-the-Month Club's top five books of 2004. It was also a Book of the Year selection for The Washington Post.

In 2014, Doerr gained a large amount of attention for his popular book release, All the Light We Cannot See . The story went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. It was also a National Book Award finalist and was named as a notable book of 2014 by The New York Times.