{"id":2729,"date":"2014-07-23T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:44:32","slug":"all-the-light-we-cannot-see-by-anthony-doerr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I would highly recommend this beautifully written work of historical fiction that alternates between the stories of two children during WWII.\u00a0 The two main characters are Marie-Laure, a young blind French girl who flees occupied Paris with her father, a key master of the Natural Museum of History, and Werner, a German orphan whose tinkering with an old radio lends him technical skills\u00a0that throw him headlong into a Hitler Youth group which leads him directly into the heart of the war. <\/span><\/p>\n

The action moves in waves from Germany to France, from pre-war years to action in the midst of war to the end of fighting and back again.\u00a0 Doerr\u2019s development of the two main characters continues even after the war ends and finally finishes in the present day with an underlying message of the innocence and humanity of these two young characters as their lives are sadly forced into a path\u00a0that will someday have them meet as enemies<\/span>. The book\u00a0can help\u00a0today’s youth to understand events and conditions in Europe during the Second World War, and the lives of individuals on each side of the conflict.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would highly recommend this beautifully written work of historical fiction that alternates between the stories of two children during WWII.\u00a0 The two main characters are Marie-Laure, a young blind French girl who flees occupied Paris with her father, a key master of the Natural Museum of History, and Werner, a German orphan whose tinkering … Continue reading All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}