All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, 2014
A blind Parisian girl and a German boy with a radio gift are pulled toward each other through the Nazi occupation, in a war story built from small, luminous things.
Anthony Doerr
Feels like tenderness, war and memory.
Start with All the Light We Cannot See.
Doerr researched blind literacy and the history of radio for the novel, which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The stone
“And so the stone fell out of history. Until one day, when a French diamond trader, during a trip to the Golconda Mines in India, was shown a massive pear-cut diamond. One hundred and thirty-three carats. Near-perfect clarity. As big as a pigeon’s egg, he wrote, and as blue as the sea, but with a flare of red at its core. He made a casting of the stone and sent it to a gem-crazy duke in Lorraine, warning him of the rumors of a curse. But the duke wanted the diamond very badly. So the trader brought it to Europe, and the duke fitted it into the end of a walking stick and carried it everywhere.” Books by Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, 2021
Five lives across centuries, linked by an ancient Greek codex and the stubborn will to preserve stories.
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