All the light we cannot see : (Record no. 38423)

MARC details
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2013034107
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9781668017340
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9781476746586
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9781476746593
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 813.6 DO AL
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Doerr, Anthony,
Dates 1973-
TITLE STATEMENT
Title All the light we cannot see :
Subtitle a novel
Statement of responsibility, etc. Anthony Doerr
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First Scribner hardcover edition.
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York :
Publisher Scribner ;
Date c2023.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 531 p. ;
Size 24 cm
SUMMARY
Summary "From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful 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. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr 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 his most ambitious and dazzling work"--
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Blind
Form Fiction
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Topical Heading World War, 1939-1945
General Youth
Form Fiction
Geographic France
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading World War, 1939-1945
General Youth
Form Fiction
Geographic Germany
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading FICTION / General
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Topical Heading FICTION / Literary
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading FICTION / Historical
Holdings
Date last seen Total checkouts Full call number Barcode Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Permanent location Current location Date acquired
04/12/2024   813.6 DO AL T0066569 04/12/2024 REGULAR   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai 04/12/2024