![]() ![]() The narrative then backtracks ten years to 1934. The American Library Association awarded Doerr its highest honor, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.ĭoerr (born in Cleveland in 1973) is the author of two previous collections of short fiction, The Shell Collector (2002) and Memory Wall (2010), a novel, About Grace (2004), and a memoir, Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (2007).Īll the Light We Cannot See opens during the US bombing of Saint-Malo, a historic, walled port city in Brittany on the northwestern coast of France, in August of 1944-two months after D-Day. ![]() It has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Australian International Book Award, and was shortlisted for the National Book Award. ![]() All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner, 2014)Īll the Light We Cannot See, a historical novel by Anthony Doerr, set during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, is a runaway best seller (it remains on the New York Times Best Seller s list after 97 weeks). ![]()
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