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3Premio Pulitzer de Ficci n 2015. Un coraz n puro puede brillar aun en la noche m s oscura. Y en el m s terrible de los tiempos. Marie-Laure vive con su padre en Par s, cerca del Museo de Historia Natural, donde l trabaja como responsable de sus mil cerraduras. Cuando, siendo muy ni a, Marie-Laure se queda ciega, su padre le construye una perfecta miniatura de su barrio para que pueda memorizarla gracias al tacto y encontrar el camino a casa. A sus doce a os, los nazis ocupan Par s y padre e hija tienen que huir a la ciudad amurallada de Saint-Malo. Con ellos se llevan la que podr a ser la m s preciada y peligrosa joya del museo. En una ciudad minera de Alemania, el joven hu rfano Werner crece junto a su hermana peque a, cautivado por una rudimentaria radio que ambos encuentran. Werner se convierte en un experto en construir y reparar estos aparatos cruciales para los nuevos tiempos, untalento que no pasa desapercibido a las Juventudes Hitlerianas. Siguiendo al ej rcito alem n, Werner deber atravesar el coraz n en guerra de Europa. Hasta que en la ltima noche antes de la liberaci n de Saint-Malo los caminos de Werner y Marie-Laure por fin se crucen. Y sus vidas cambien para siempre. N. 1 en las listas de bestsellers en Estados Unidos. Finalista del National Book Award. Mejor novela de 2014 en iTunes. Entre los mejores diez libros del a o paraThe New York Times. N . 1 de ficci n hist rica de 2014 en Goodreads. Premio 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal de novela de la American Library Association. Estoy leyendo un libro maravilloso. Solo llevo la mitad as que no puedo hablar hasta el final, pero es un verdadero placer. Quer a cont roslo. Estilo impecable, personajes maravillosos y una v vida recreaci n de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Qu m s se puede pedir?... Y no es preciosa la cubierta? Kate Morton
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill"(Los Angeles Times).
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill"(Los Angeles Times).
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