Historical · Literary
All the Light We Cannot See
Bestseller: about 15.3 million copies (estimate)A blind French girl and a gifted German boy, drawn into the army, live very different Second World War lives in alternating short chapters, and their paths gradually move toward the walled port town of Saint-Malo.
- First published
- 2014
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like lyrical, patient historical fiction told in very short chapters.
Skip this if you want a quick-paced war story; the structure and prose are deliberately slow.
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