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All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 war novel by American author Anthony Doerr.The novel is set during World War II.It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in ...
When it was published in 2014, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See emerged as an unexpected breakout book of the year, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, spending more than 200 weeks ...
All the Light We Cannot See is a critically acclaimed novel by Anthony Doerr, first published in 2014. While Marie-Laure, Werner and other characters are products of the author's imagination, he ...
May 17—in May of 2014, Anthony Doerr's WWII novel All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner) was published. His fifth book, the novel was a breakout success that went on to win the Pulitzer Prize ...
The book was a New York Times bestseller, and was named by the newspaper as a notable book of 2014. [4] It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. It was runner-up for the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction [ 5 ] and won the 2015 Ohioana Library Association Book Award for Fiction.
As defined in the original Plan of Award, the prize was given "Annually, for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood," although there was some struggle over whether the word wholesome should be used instead of whole, the word Pulitzer had written in his will. [3]
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The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history of the United States .