Language: English | Category: Novel (Historical) | Audio Book: Not Available

All the Light We Cannot See is a novel written by American author Anthony 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.

Set in occupied France during World War II, the novel centers on a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths eventually cross.

In 1934, Marie-Laure LeBlanc is the daughter of a widowed master locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris whom she often accompanies to work. Marie suffered from rapidly deteriorating eyesight before becoming fully blind due to cataracts at the age of 6. Her father promises that he will always be there for her and creates a wooden scale-model of their neighborhood in Paris for her to memorize by touch so that she is able to navigate by herself. He also keeps her mind sharp by hiding birthday gifts in intricate puzzle boxes that he carves. Marie learns to read Braille and her father gives her new novels in Braille to read. She becomes entranced by the imagined worlds like those that she explores in her edition of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

The museum where Marie-Laure’s father works as a locksmith is rumored to house an exquisite diamond of immeasurable value, with beautiful dancing “red flames” at its center: According to legend, however, the priceless diamond is cursed: whoever keeps the “Sea of Flames” cannot die but their loved ones will be stricken with unending misfortunes.