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Time and place written united states of america between 2004 and 2014.
Type of work novel.
One of the two protagonists of all the light we cannot see marie laure leblanc is an inquisitive intellectually adventurous girl she became blind at the age of six but learns to adapt to this and continues to explore and discover.
Marie laure is a warm loving girl.
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.
In contrast when he rescues marie laure werner is finally able to help someone in need.
For most of the novel marie laure is a teenager but by the end of the novel she s an old woman.
Werner pfennig is a young intelligent german boy and one of the two protagonists of all the light we cannot see.
Full title all the light we cannot see.
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It won the 2015 pulitzer prize for fiction and the 2015 andrew carnegie medal for excellence in fiction.
Narrator the novel is narrated by an anonymous narrator who describes events in a melancholy and reflective manner.
All the light we cannot see.
All the light we cannot see is a war novel written by american author anthony doerr published by scribner on may 6 2014.