All The Light We Cannot See By Antony Doerr

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All the Light We cannot see is a two plot novel written by the American author Antony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Doerr’s compelling novel revolves around its two main characters: Marie-Laure, a sixteen year old blind girl who lived with his father in Paris, and Werner, an orphaned Nazi youth who lived with his sister at Germany. The story of Werner and Marie-Laure are two sides of a same coin because Doerr tells the story simultaneously. The story is set against the back drop of both Germany and France, prior to and during the German occupation of France. The novel explores issues of love, loss, family, war and self-discovery