Current Book
(September 2021 )
All The Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
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. When she is six, she goes
blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood—every house, every
sewer drain—so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with
her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris in June of 1940, 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 named 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’s.
Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric.
Deftly interweaving the lives of multiple characters, Doerr illuminates the ways, against
all odds, people try to be good to one another.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOR OVER 200 WEEKS FINALIST FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE INDIES CHOICE BOOK AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCATION
WINNER OF AN ALEX AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCATION
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
HUDSON BOOKSELLERS' 2014 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER
NAMED BEST BOOK OF THE DECADE BY INDIGO NAMED THE BEST NOVEL OF 2014 BY APPLE IBOOKS
About The Author
Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His newest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, will be published on September 28, 2021.
Doerr’s short stories and essays have won five O. Henry Prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, New American Stories, The Best American Essays, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, and many other places. His work has been translated into over forty different languages and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, an Alex Award from the American Library Association, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, four Pushcart Prizes, two Pacific Northwest Book Awards, four Ohioana Book Awards, the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories, and the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. All the Light We Cannot See was a #1 New York Times bestseller, remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 200 weeks, and is being adapted as a limited series by Netflix.
Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife and two sons. Though he is often asked, as far as he knows he is not related to the lat9e writer Harriet Doerr.
Book Talk for AllThe Light We Cannot See
Our Book Talk for All The Light We Cannot See will take place on
Saturday, October 3, 2021 at at 12:30 p.m. at the Wagon Wheel.
Our book club is very casual and welcoming.
Please plan to join us whether you read the book or not. The more the merrier!
Please feel free to contact us to confirm the date/time/location
for our Book Talk, as sometimes we do have to change it on short notice. Our contact
information can be found by clicking on the Contact tab at the top of the page.
Click on the Book List tab near the top of the page for a
complete list of the books that Book Talk has read.
Book description and information about the author taken from
the authors website at www.anthonydoerr.com.
This web-page updated 9-6-2021
(September 2021 )
All The Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
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. When she is six, she goes
blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood—every house, every
sewer drain—so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with
her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris in June of 1940, 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 named 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’s.
Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric.
Deftly interweaving the lives of multiple characters, Doerr illuminates the ways, against
all odds, people try to be good to one another.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOR OVER 200 WEEKS FINALIST FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
WINNER OF THE INDIES CHOICE BOOK AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCATION
WINNER OF AN ALEX AWARD FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCATION
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
HUDSON BOOKSELLERS' 2014 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER
NAMED BEST BOOK OF THE DECADE BY INDIGO NAMED THE BEST NOVEL OF 2014 BY APPLE IBOOKS
About The Author
Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His newest novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, will be published on September 28, 2021.
Doerr’s short stories and essays have won five O. Henry Prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, New American Stories, The Best American Essays, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, and many other places. His work has been translated into over forty different languages and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, an Alex Award from the American Library Association, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, four Pushcart Prizes, two Pacific Northwest Book Awards, four Ohioana Book Awards, the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories, and the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. All the Light We Cannot See was a #1 New York Times bestseller, remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 200 weeks, and is being adapted as a limited series by Netflix.
Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife and two sons. Though he is often asked, as far as he knows he is not related to the lat9e writer Harriet Doerr.
Book Talk for AllThe Light We Cannot See
Our Book Talk for All The Light We Cannot See will take place on
Saturday, October 3, 2021 at at 12:30 p.m. at the Wagon Wheel.
Our book club is very casual and welcoming.
Please plan to join us whether you read the book or not. The more the merrier!
Please feel free to contact us to confirm the date/time/location
for our Book Talk, as sometimes we do have to change it on short notice. Our contact
information can be found by clicking on the Contact tab at the top of the page.
Click on the Book List tab near the top of the page for a
complete list of the books that Book Talk has read.
Book description and information about the author taken from
the authors website at www.anthonydoerr.com.
This web-page updated 9-6-2021
