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All the Light We Cannot See
Historical fiction
All the Light We Cannot See
Blind Parisian girl Marie-Laure flees the German occupation with her father, a museum locksmith entrusted with a dangerous secret. German orphan Werner Pfennig's brilliance with radios brings opportunity but also conscription into the Nazi war machine. Their alternating paths converge in the walled coastal city of Saint-Malo as bombardment closes around them. Lyrical and intricately structured, this Pulitzer-winning novel suits readers who enjoy World War II fiction, morally complicated coming-of-age stories, radio technology, sensory prose, and small acts of human connection amid immense violence.
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World War II violence and deaths; bombing and gun violence; torture; severe injuries and blood; Nazi persecution and antisemitism; bullying; sexual exploitation/prostitution references; grief and child/family peril.
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