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All the light we cannot see : a novel / 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 (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighbourhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorise it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, 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 boy, 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 specialised 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. Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
Author: Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Published: London : 4th Estate, 2023.
Published: ©2014
531 pages ; 20 cm

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Adult Fiction - DOE - Available - W00189305

Cloud cuckoo land / Anthony Doerr.

From the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril. An ancient text--the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky--provides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters. Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness--with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we're gone. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Cloud Cuckoo Land is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship--of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.
Author: Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Published: London : 4th Estate, 2021.
Published: ©2021
626 pages ; 24 cm

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Adult Fiction - DOE - Available - W00184373
Jandowae Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Adult Fiction - DOE - Available - W00184374

Cloud Cuckoo Land [electronic resource]

Pre-order the spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octogenarian Zeno, in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for a distant exoplanet, decades from now. A single copy of an ancient text – the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land – provides solace, mystery and the most profound human connection to these five unforgettable characters. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Zeno, Seymour and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders, struggling to survive and finding resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.
Author: Doerr, Anthony
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Fourth Estate, 2021
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All the light we cannot see / Anthony Doerr.

Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in.
Author: Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Large print edition.
Published: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Published: Farmington Hills, Michigan : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Published: ©2017.
770 pages ; 22 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Large Print - L DOE - Available - W00138805
Jandowae Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Large Print - L DOE - Available - W00148812

All the light we cannot see : a novel / Anthony Doerr.

One of the most acclaimed and bestselling books of 2014. An epic novel set during WW2, from the prize-winner Anthony Doerr. When Marie Laure goes blind, aged six, her father builds her a model of their Paris neighborhood, so she can memorize it with her fingers and then navigate the real streets.
Author: Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Published: London : Fourth Estate, 2015.
Published: ©2014.
Published: London, U.K. : Fourth Estate, 2015.
531 pages ; 20 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Adult Fiction - DOE - Onloan - Due: 13 Jun 2024 - W00111783
Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Adult Fiction - DOE - Available - W00194660