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Hoppets triumf över ondskan Den franska flickan Marie-Laure har nyligen blivit blind och kan bara tolka krigets fasor genom ljud, dofter och beröring. I Tyskland drömmer barnhemspojken Werner om att bli radiotekniker, men kan bara undslippa ett hårt liv i kolgruvan genom Hitlerjugend. När Marie-Laure flyr det ockuperade Paris och Werner skickas på ett hemligt uppdrag förenas deras öden i Saint-Malo en stad som kommer att totalförstöras av kriget. Ljuset vi inte ser är en gripande historia om människor som, mot alla odds, kämpar för att överleva. En fängslande berättelse om den grymhet som en gång slog klorna i Europa och om den godhet som göms i djupet av våra hjärtan. Ett mästerverk. Library Journal Fängslande berättelse, vackert språk. Washington Post En bok att leva i ... att aldrig vilja släppa. Booklist [Publit]… (mer)
gypsysmom: Similar locale in that Guernsey and St. Malo were occupied by the German army during World War II. Resistance is also a main theme in both of them.
BookshelfMonstrosity: Both of these heartbreaking World War II novels cause readers to pine for a happier ending than is possible for the characters. The stylistically complex writing describes the struggles that the characters -- some with physical challenges -- go through to survive.… (mer)
BookshelfMonstrosity: These moving, stylistically complex novels reflect on the brutality of World War II and its lingering effects. The characters have diverse backgrounds, some supporting the Germans and others the Allies. Their wartime experiences threaten to ruin their futures.… (mer)
Bara att stämma in i hyllningskörerna. En fantastiskt vacker och gripande bok. Sorg, grymhet men också godhet och kärlek. Tyvärr var jag nära att avbryta lyssnandet pga av Uppläsaren Magnus Roosman som tyvärr är kass på denna typ av böcker. Han har en betoning och inlevelseförmåga som är bedrövlig för att vara av en skådespelare. ( )
En underbar berättelse där ett antal öden vävs samman under andra världskrigets fasor. Balanserar bra mellan vemod och lycka utan att det blir för mycket. Ibland lite väl mycket skrivet som ett filmmanus, men å andra sidan skulle det säkert bli en bra film. Jag rekommenderar boken varmt. ( )
What really makes a book of the summer is when we surprise ourselves. It’s not just about being fascinated by a book. It’s about being fascinated by the fact that we’re fascinated.
The odds: 2-1 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Pros: Blind daughter of a locksmith meets reluctant Nazi engineering whiz! What more do you want? Cons: Complex, lyrical historical fiction may not have the necessary mass appeal.
“All the Light We Cannot See” is more than a thriller and less than great literature. As such, it is what the English would call “a good read.” Maybe Doerr could write great literature if he really tried. I would be happy if he did.
By the time the narrative finds Marie-Laure and Werner in the same German-occupied village in Brittany, a reader’s skepticism has been absolutely flattened by this novel’s ability to show that the improbable doesn’t just occur, it is the grace that allows us to survive the probable.
Werner’s experience at the school is only one of the many trials through which Mr. Doerr puts his characters in this surprisingly fresh and enveloping book. What’s unexpected about its impact is that the novel does not regard Europeans’ wartime experience in a new way. Instead, Mr. Doerr’s nuanced approach concentrates on the choices his characters make and on the souls that have been lost, both living and dead.
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In August 1944 the historic walled city of Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast of Brittany, France, was almost totally destroyed by fire. . . . Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remained standing and all were damaged to some degree. —Philip Beck
It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels
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For Wendy Weil 1940-2012
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Leaflets At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles.
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If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.
Nothing will be healed in this kitchen. Some griefs can never be put right.
Music spirals out of the radios, and it is splendid to drowse on the davenport, to be warm and fed, to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.
There is pride, too, though — pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.
Werner tries to see what Frederick sees: a time before photography, before binoculars. And here was someone willing to tramp out into a wilderness brimming with the unknown and bring back paintings. A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged trumpeting mysteries.
"Sublimity," Hauptmann says, panting, "you know what that is, Pfenning?" He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling. Never has Werner seen him like this. "It's the instant when one thing is about to become something else. Day to night, caterpillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man."
"It's all right," he told her. "Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one." Did they? He hopes they did. He seems to remember a little boat—a more seaworthy one—gliding down a river. It sailed around a bend and left them behind. Didn't it?
And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks like egrets, like terns, like starlings? That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough?
"How about peaches, dear?" murmers Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she's eating wedges of wet sunlight.
A sunrise in his mouth.
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She listens until his footsteps fade. Until all she can hear are the sighs of cars and the rumble of trains and the sounds of everyone hurrying through the cold.
Hoppets triumf över ondskan Den franska flickan Marie-Laure har nyligen blivit blind och kan bara tolka krigets fasor genom ljud, dofter och beröring. I Tyskland drömmer barnhemspojken Werner om att bli radiotekniker, men kan bara undslippa ett hårt liv i kolgruvan genom Hitlerjugend. När Marie-Laure flyr det ockuperade Paris och Werner skickas på ett hemligt uppdrag förenas deras öden i Saint-Malo en stad som kommer att totalförstöras av kriget. Ljuset vi inte ser är en gripande historia om människor som, mot alla odds, kämpar för att överleva. En fängslande berättelse om den grymhet som en gång slog klorna i Europa och om den godhet som göms i djupet av våra hjärtan. Ett mästerverk. Library Journal Fängslande berättelse, vackert språk. Washington Post En bok att leva i ... att aldrig vilja släppa. Booklist [Publit]
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