Werner s initial scope of experience is quite limited because he grows up as an impoverished orphan in a rural region of germany.
Werner all the light we cannot see movie.
Werner pfennig is a young intelligent german boy and one of the two protagonists of all the light we cannot see werner has whitish blond hair blue eyes and is strikingly intelligent so he seems like a model of the nazis aryan ideal except that he has a stronger moral compass and a lesser sense of racial superiority than most of his peers.
All the light we cannot see werner is a kindhearted and intelligent young man who is highly motivated to learn.
Set in occupied france during world war ii the novel centers on a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths eventually cross.
Finally as werner s conversation with marie laure shows all the light we cannot see calls attention to the shared humanity that bridges our differences and the artificiality of dividing lines between good guys and bad guys one of werner s fellow soldiers calls attention to the artificiality of ethnic division when he jokes.
The year s surprise bestseller turns the holocaust into a sentimental mess afp getty images the more sentimental the better reflects werner the albino.
However once he acquires a radio and succeeds in getting it to work his horizon of experience widens.
It won the 2015 pulitzer prize for fiction and the 2015 andrew carnegie medal for excellence in fiction.
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All the light we cannot see is a war novel written by american author anthony doerr published by scribner on may 6 2014.