A Study Guide for Anthony Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See"
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
2014
Introduction
All the Light We Cannot See is a historical novel published in 2014 by American author Anthony Doerr. The novel was both a critical and a commercial success. In 2015 it won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. It reached number one on the New York Times best-seller list in early 2015 and remained on the best-seller list for 134 weeks.
The novel is set largely during World War II, although its final two parts reach ahead to 1974, then to 2014. It focuses on two young people caught up in the war. One is Marie-Laure Le-Blanc, the blind daughter of a locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. After the Nazi invasion of France, she and her father flee to the walled town of Saint-Malo on the coast of Brittany, where they live with her eccentric great-uncle. Meanwhile, Werner Pfennig is a white-haired orphan living in an orphanage in Germany. He has a gift for science and math and particularly for fixing broken radios, earning him admission to an elite Nazi training school. His job in the war is to hunt down contraband radios used by resistance fighters. The paths of the two characters converge in 1944, when the Allies bomb Saint-Malo. Meanwhile, Marie-Laure's father is entrusted with a mysterious—and possibly cursed—blue diamond from the Museum of Natural History, which he takes to Saint-Malo and hides in a wooden model he makes of Saint-Malo and the great-uncle's house. This gem, the Sea of Flames, becomes the target of a hunt conducted by an evil Nazi gemologist.
Doerr has commented on the origins of All the Light We Cannot See, which took him ten years to write and which he wove together out of bits and pieces of experience. The first occurred in 2003, when he overheard a conversation in which a man was complaining about cell phone coverage, triggering the idea of a boy listening to a radio. A second took place the following year, when he traveled to Saint-Malo in France to promote his book About Grace. In the past, the city, perched on a rocky coast, was populated by pirates, who often hid in deep cellars; the Allied bombing of Saint-Malo in this way became a focal point for the novel. He then read an article about how curators at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad had hidden the museum's treasures to safeguard them from looters and possible damage during the Iraq War of the